(예술) 새 큰 바위 얼굴
(예술) 새 큰 바위 얼굴
And recognize this man? He’s being honored with the largest mountain sculpture in the world. This is the CBS Evening News. We end tonight with the monumental project to honor the culture and heritage유산 of the American Indian. A memorial to one of the most famous of all is being carved조각하다 out of a mountain in South Dakota. And they’ve been added now for more than half a century as Mark Strassman tells us this endeavor노력 is a true example of the American Spirit.
In South Dakota's Black Hills, a mountain foreman십장 named Kaz Ziolkowski can finally see it. His family's dream taking shape. In size and scale, it's the most mammoth mountain sculpture in the world. An outsized특대의 replica of this statue of Crazy Horse, the Lakota Indian chief who wiped out Custer's men at Little Big Horn. When finished, it'll stretch 641 feet long, rise 563 feet tall, almost eight feet higher than the
All one man’s towering야망이 큰 vision. Not Kaz, but his father. In 1947, a local chief convinced sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to create a lasting영구적인 memorial to American Indians. “I believe I can do it. I know I can do it." "He was a visionary망상적인. A man that believed I can do this. And here it is, 60 years, getting done." Korczak worked at his vision until he died in 1982. With Korczak gone, many skeptics assumed his family would pack it in그만두다. Instead, they dug in고수하다, and proved they were here to stay. They decided to finish the chief's head first, a relatively smaller job than his horse's head. It took 10 years, but people could see progress for miles around.
Over the decades, blasting and drilling away 7 million tons of rock chiseled조각하다 the chief into focus. Guests and private donors have paid for every dime of this project. Seven of Korczak's 10 children still work on this family's dream. How much longer to finish? Fifty years? A hundred? Their mother, Korczak's widow, refuses to guess. "Doesn't matter when it's finished." This family made a commitment to America's Indians. They intend to honor it however long it takes. Mark Strassman, CBS News, Crazy Horse, South Dakota. It’s amazing.