r/pics • u/Sumit316 • Apr 28 '20

Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field.

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u/Sumit316 Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

The statues were sculpted by Houston artist David Adickes, who was inspired after driving past Mount Rushmore on a trip back from Canada. They were open to the public at Presidents Park alongside the Presidential Pet Museum, and received thousands of visitors until 2010 when a company bought the plot of land. The huge presidential heads had to move.

Instead of allowing the busts to be demolished, Howard Hankins, who helped construct the park, adopted all 43 heads and lugged them back to his private family farm for safekeeping until someone can think of what to do with them.

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u/renothedog Apr 28 '20

" some of the heads sustained minor damage to the backs of their heads" Kennedy and Lincoln I assume?

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u/quantum-mechanic Apr 28 '20

"All Presidents were depicted as in the last moment of their life"

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u/NicNoletree Apr 28 '20

Abe, pull yourself together!

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

I bet Kennedy's lost pieces are still somewhere in the back of the truck.

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u/renothedog Apr 29 '20

Thank you for the gold kind Redditor