Its sole civic memorial is a small plaque at knee-height, obscured by potted vegetation, at the west end of the downtown mall shopping district. Its message, “Today Vinegar Hill is just a memory,” is a mere salve, while the Lee and Jackson statues are perpetual wounds.
It's interesting how in the midst of analyzing the two statue in depth, the authors just allow the civic memorial to stand on its own without much analysis.Only when they had everything set up did they introduce the memorial. That ending of "Today Vinegar Hill is just a memory" has more emotionally impact when the readers know what had happened rather than not understanding the full meaning from the start.