For 67 years, he was Hampton Marshall Auld.
He reflected on this moment in an opinion piece sent this week to The Capital and the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia, where Auld worked as a library executive before he became the CEO of Anne Arundel County’s library system.
Auld shrugged that off when he learned about Hampton in college.
Auld popped in the audiobook CD of “Grant,” a biography of President Ulysses S. Grant, and was driving through Davidsonville as he listened to a section about Hampton.
“I just wanted to tear down the highly personal monument to the Confederacy in my own family history,” Auld wrote in his op-ed to The Capital.
