Is this Crazy?

Here's a picture of a monument-to-be, taken in the Black Hill of South Dakota in 1977. The project was started in 1948. That means this picture shows 29 years of progress.

This is how it looks today, after 32 more years of work. So if I've got my math right, this project's been under construction for 61 years so far. They say they take in about $1M a year from tourists.

It's granddaddy took fourteen years to sculpt and cost $1M.

Someday it will look like this, by my reckoning, about a thousand years from now. That assumes the mountain still stands and there's somebody to collect the fees.

Can't help wondering what the guy on the horse would have wanted, the monument or the mountain.

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