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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums43 Giant U.S. President Statues Sit Crumbling in a Virginia Field
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Its a rather bizarre sight43 giant, crumbling presidential heads sitting in a field in Virginia. The ghosts of presidents past stand out from between the tall weeds that grow on Howard Hankins' farm, their iconic faces deteriorating slowly over time. The sculptures were collected from the now-unused open air museum named Presidents Park, opened in 2004 by local entrepreneur Everette Haley Newman and the sculptor behind the intriguing presidential busts, David Adickes. However, their vision was not meant to be and the park, which cost about $10 million to create, was closed in 2010 due to lack of visitors.
Local land owner Hankins was asked to destroy the 18- to 20-foot-high busts after the closure of the museum, but he came up with a different solution, offering instead to move the heads to his farm. This was no easy taskthe massive busts, each weighing 11,000 to 20,000 pounds, now had to be moved to a field 10 miles away. During the process, the busts sustained some damageas they were lifted by crane, the necks of the sculptures were cracked off and the improvised moving process caused significant injury to each of the mighty figures. Abraham Lincoln now stands with a hole in his skull, eerily reminiscent of his assassination wound, and George Washington looks on into the distance, with what appears to be tears dripping down his face.
The proud busts now decay in rows on Hankins' farm, crumbling and cracking as time continues to wear on the famous figures. This series of images was captured by photographer Patrick Joust on a trek out to the field, where he explored the resting grounds of the eroding presidents.
Local land owner Hankins was asked to destroy the 18- to 20-foot-high busts after the closure of the museum, but he came up with a different solution, offering instead to move the heads to his farm. This was no easy taskthe massive busts, each weighing 11,000 to 20,000 pounds, now had to be moved to a field 10 miles away. During the process, the busts sustained some damageas they were lifted by crane, the necks of the sculptures were cracked off and the improvised moving process caused significant injury to each of the mighty figures. Abraham Lincoln now stands with a hole in his skull, eerily reminiscent of his assassination wound, and George Washington looks on into the distance, with what appears to be tears dripping down his face.
The proud busts now decay in rows on Hankins' farm, crumbling and cracking as time continues to wear on the famous figures. This series of images was captured by photographer Patrick Joust on a trek out to the field, where he explored the resting grounds of the eroding presidents.
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43 Giant U.S. President Statues Sit Crumbling in a Virginia Field (Original Post)
MerryBlooms
Feb 2016
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RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)1. Busted!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)2. You got here first so
I guess you're a head.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)3. Thanks for the heads-up
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)4. ...
postulater
(5,075 posts)5. Headed for Easter Island?
PufPuf23
(8,791 posts)6. Ten tons is 20,000 lbs, largest bust size cited.
Ancient people, mostly in the Middle East and Central and South America, quarried and moved stone megaliths between 200 and 1000 tons, sometimes then set in place with amazing precision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_monoliths_in_the_world
I am not suggesting aliens.
Reter
(2,188 posts)7. But it's aliens
PufPuf23
(8,791 posts)9. I thought you would say that!
or somebody else.
lololol
Reter
(2,188 posts)8. If they are going to destroy them anyway, can I have FDR?
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)10. Takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Hankins' fritters.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)11. What should be done with the statue of Shrub?
I am thinking some sort of urinal.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)12. I was there not too long ago
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)14. Amazing photos. I might head over there too.
Not really, just couldn't resist busting out another head pun.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)13. I'm guessing there are actually only 42
Only a real pedant would have carved a second huge bust of Cleveland just to recognize his nonconsecutive terms.