Buena Vista, CO, Library
Some miscreant(s) with electrician's tape added apparent facial hair to all four presidents on this Welcome to South Dakota sign. And they no doubt used a ladder. Surely someone must have seen them at work.
Here at the Wyoming/South Dakota border is a reminder of what I and two Korean Lieutenants saw in May 1962 at the Minnesota/South Dakota border.
Skinflint that I am, I parked off of the exit road and walked back up the hill to get this shot. In 1962 I remember a two-story wooden structure with telescopes in a meadow. [As a test of your knowledge of U.S. History, name the four presidents from left to right; answer below just above the Links.]
Here's a resized crop of the last photo I took of Mt Rushmore. [As an additional question, indicate which number each of the four presidents was; at least two of the four should be relatively easy, but the fellow with glasses might be the hardest to number.]
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[Answers (L-R): George Washington (1st); Thomas Jefferson (3rd); Theodore Roosevelt (26th); & Abraham Lincoln (16th). [While I knew all of the names I remembered a 6 in TR's number, but incorrectly guessed 36th, which was Lyndon Johnson; also, thought Lincoln was the 12th, but that was Zachery Taylor.
Links:
- U.S. Park Service webpages on Mt Rushmore Natl Park
- Wikipedia article on Mount Rushmore
- Mt Vernon.Org biography of George Washington
- Brief Wikipedia biography of Thomas Jefferson
- Long but thorough biography of Thomas Jefferson
- Wikipedia biography of Theodore Roosevelt
- About.Com biography of Abraham Lincoln by Martin Kelly
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