In 2004 Everette “Haley” Newman, inspired by Mount Rushmore, built Presidents Park in Williamsburg, VA. But apparently tourists did not want to walk among 20-foot tall busts of the presidents and the park closed in 2010. Howard Hankins suggested moving them to his farm in Croaker, Virginia. It took a week and $50,000 to move the 43 colossal presidents, each weighing between 11,000 and 20,000 pounds, to a field ten miles away where they are monuments to impermanence, succumbing to the ravages of time.
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