wow-what an amazing thing to see! This is nothing else was worth the trip and tomorrow we're heading to Mt Rushmore which is supposed to a another marvel.....we'll see :o) They say that all of Mt Rushmores 4 presidents heads will fit in Crazy Horses head-that is how big this monument is in comparison.
Anyway, apparently the Indian's decided this Crazy Horse fellow needed a monument and of all the people in the world they decided a man of polish decent would be the man to do it...of course he just so happened to have been born on the same day as Crazy Horse so there was Karma there and you know the Indians and Karma. So this man Korczak Ziolkowski started on a mission by himself in 1948 he started carving the face- just that was completed in 1998, when its done it'll be 641' long and 563' high. He married a lady and they had 10 kids and they had 28 kids and most of them still work the mountain, in fact his wife still is alive and still oversees the progress with 7 of the children everyday.
You can go online i believe and see an actual live shot of work in progress and sometimes when they dynamite because there is no state funding it's slow but it is amazing. It's http://www.crazyhorse.org/ and also there is a really good laser show at 7:45 every night that tells the story-don't know tho if they put that on the site....maybe
Oh and Lauren & Ali, you will be so proud of PopPop....he actually got you guys a piece of Crazy Horse's face that they dynamited away & he's bringing it home as a souvenir for you guys-you asked for a rock and now you have something from here-pretty cool huh! It's granite and it's just like everyone back home makes counter tops and floors from-daddy or mommy can explain it to you .
Anyway, apparently the Indian's decided this Crazy Horse fellow needed a monument and of all the people in the world they decided a man of polish decent would be the man to do it...of course he just so happened to have been born on the same day as Crazy Horse so there was Karma there and you know the Indians and Karma. So this man Korczak Ziolkowski started on a mission by himself in 1948 he started carving the face- just that was completed in 1998, when its done it'll be 641' long and 563' high. He married a lady and they had 10 kids and they had 28 kids and most of them still work the mountain, in fact his wife still is alive and still oversees the progress with 7 of the children everyday.
You can go online i believe and see an actual live shot of work in progress and sometimes when they dynamite because there is no state funding it's slow but it is amazing. It's http://www.crazyhorse.org/ and also there is a really good laser show at 7:45 every night that tells the story-don't know tho if they put that on the site....maybe
Oh and Lauren & Ali, you will be so proud of PopPop....he actually got you guys a piece of Crazy Horse's face that they dynamited away & he's bringing it home as a souvenir for you guys-you asked for a rock and now you have something from here-pretty cool huh! It's granite and it's just like everyone back home makes counter tops and floors from-daddy or mommy can explain it to you .
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