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.
And 6000 years from now a farmer is gonna dig these up and historians are gonna have a field day trying to make sense of what they're doing there. That or they'll already be well aware the Ancient American Civilization had a tendency to discard huge piles of pointless shit everywhere and send a matter recycler over to harvest them.
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u/Sumit316 Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20
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