“Lynching Reopens Old Scars For Some Mariettans.” By Bill Hendrick. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. August 21, 2000.

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Some Mariettans would rather not see the town’s most notorious incident depicted yet again. Despite their protests, however, the play is more than an inrrelevant rehash, because its exploration of violent prejudice comes at a time when overt anti-Semitism has resurfaced in Marietta, again directed at a local Jewish business figure.

Lynching will play in Marietta through Sept. 24, a date that won’t come too soon for some Mariettans, who would rather not have the world reminded that the only lynching of a Jew in U.S. history took place in their town. No one was ever charged with Frank’s murder, but the ancestors of some “OMs” – Old Mariettans – are found on lists of suspects that have been circulating secretly for years.