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A National Park Service veteran is weighing in on the possibility of adding Donald Trump's face to Mount Rushmore, explaining ...
The Start Westward Memorial has sat in Marietta for 87 years. It could soon be removed and replaced with a bronze replica.
People have long wanted to add presidents to Mount Rushmore. But there's two big reasons that's unlikely, if not impossible.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum liked to tinker with his own legend, subtracting a few years from his age, changing the story of his parentage. The best archival research has revealed that he was ...
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum invested 14 years into carving his vision into Mount Rushmore before dying in 1941. (Library of Congress photo) Crafting one of the most recognizable fixtures of the ...
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga. July 2, 2020 More than 5 years ago ...
Gutzon Borglum works on the Start Westward monument in his studio. The monument was commissioned for the city of Marietta’s sesquicentennial in 1938. (Photo Provided) ...
Less controversial at the time was the past of Rushmore’s creator, an enigmatic Danish American named Gutzon Borglum. By the early 1900s Borglum was a celebrated sculptor, especially of Lincoln ...
Dedicated 75 years ago this month, Mount Rushmore was intended by its creator, Gutzon Borglum, to be a celebration of not only these four presidents but also the nation’s unprecedented greatness.
In this, the season of presidents, the story of Mount Rushmore is often retold. It took 14 years and 400 men to carve in stone the vision of sculptor Gutzon Borglum. A sheer mountain face of South ...
Gutzon's talent was immediately apparent and he found a few commissions (certainly the fact that Solon had already associated the name Borglum with fine sculpture didn't hurt). At the same time ...