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Crazy Horse
Mountain
carving progress, early 2003.
Artist Korczak Ziolkowski
also worked on the Mount Rushmore carvings. |
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Visitors
Can Get Up Close & Personal |
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The Crazy Horse
Monument is a nonprofit, educational and
cultural project, open year round. |
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People
might think they have seen all there is to see of the Crazy Horse
Monument, when they drive past the large mountain carving in the Black Hills of South
Dakota (near Mount Rushmore). But there is more to see and
know than can be revealed in stone alone.
Now, in effect, Crazy Horse speaks via a new Travelers'
Information Radio Station, inviting people into the story of
the carving and the history it represents, i.e., the
blood, sweat and tears of the past 50 years of work on the
mountain carving and the American Indian experience that
inspired it.
That story, in essence, is what this interpretive
Information Station tells motorists as they approach the
colossal, still-in-progress work of art. Unless visitors
hear the story and learn how the carving is
being crafted through drilling and dynamite, they cannot
truly understand its significance. Until the Native American culture is
shared; until the artist's background is conveyed; until the
vision of the finished work is revealed, travelers cannot
fully appreciate all that the carving represents.
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"You
folks [at ISS] have been very professional and easy to work
with. You present a very customer friendly impression and
deliver on your product. We enjoy working with you. Thanks for
the service!" Rollie
Noem
Crazy Horse Board of Directors
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| How the
sculpture will more fully emerge from the mountain eventually.
Ultimately it will be 563 feet high. |
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The
Crazy Horse Information Station broadcasts on 1610 kHz
AM 24 hours a day at the foot of the mountain,
beckoning travelers into the Visitors' Center and the
Indian Museum of North America.
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The radio station also provides dynamite-blast
schedules associated with mountain sculpting, notice of public
events scheduled at the facilities and details on how to
become involved in supporting this "monumental"
volunteer effort. |
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