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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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The
arrow points to
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
and personal. |
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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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Crazy Horse
Monument in South Dakota |
August 2003 |
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.
Crazy Horse Monument broadcasts its story via an
Information Station, inviting people into the
history of the carving, i.e., the blood, sweat and tears
of the past 50 years of work on the mountain carving and
the Native American experience that inspired it.
That story, in essence, is what this interpretive
Information Station tells motorists, as they approach
the colossal work of art. Unless visitors hear the story
and learn how the carving was 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.
Crazy Horse Monument is a nonprofit, educational and
cultural project, open year round.
Visit the Crazy
Horse
Website. |
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service!" |
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Park Manager |
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conventional or Corbin locks, lightning arrestors for RF, power
and telephone lines, coaxial cable. Most stations employ black
maximized antennas to discourage ice accumulation and security
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by local, network or telco, multi-station audio distribution via
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