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Mt. Rushmore Vacation Picture Album
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June, 2003
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As a little gift to me, and in a final culmination to my year-long study of Abraham Lincoln at my old school:  Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3-a, we made the best vacation ever when we traveled up to the Black Hills from Illinois, via Baraboo, Wisconsin Circus World Museum, and then across Minnesota and into South Dakota.  It was already hot in Illinois, but up-north we had to wear our jackets during a beautiful sun-shiny day. 
Mt. Rushmore is one of the five National Memorials for the 16th President (along with Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Washington).  It is a beautiful art work, very patriotic, and I recommend it to be seen by all Americans.

Be sure to check out The Mt. Rushmore Hotlist of Resources , as well as my companion Stone Mountain Site (Conderate Memorial).

The Black Hills

The Hills do have the appearance of being black
with the dark shadowing.  It is a beautiful site, with small herds
of cattle bunched together near water holes

Mt. Rushmore Walk of the States

Beautiful Background of Pine Trees
 

George and Abraham looking upon us

Right Under the Noses on the Modern Wooden Trails
View from the steps of the Ampitheater

Abe Lincoln Presenter greets Mt. Rushmore visitors
On the Wooden Trail to the  base of the sculptures,
there is a "secret" cave as such, what I call a crevice, to
which made this fun photo of George & Abraham

Each President has a plaque along the top of the Wooden Trail. 
This is a photo of the Lincoln, 16th President Information Plaque
The Museum has an interactive and animated
display of machinery, the original "casts" of the heads" and other body parts, as well as an actual working  steam machine, and movie of dynamite explosions of the actual building & direction by Gutzon Borglum

 
Sandra (left) and Howard Taylor (right) posing at the base of the sculpture group showing the rubble debris left from Borglum's work.  The temperature that day at Mt. Rushmore in June was  refreshingly cool.


Sandra enjoying the view at a rest spot on the Wooden
Trail  at the base of the sculpture group.  She  visited Mt.Rushmore many years earlier, and didn't get to climb so high up, and so close to the Presidential monument.
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