Comments on: Crazy Horse Memorial – “The Red Man Has Great Heroes Also”

By: Black Hills Journey – More Than Faces Carved in Stone – Journeys with Johnbo

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:05:57 +0000

[…] only a few miles from Mount Rushmore and featured a Travel Tuesday about the new monument here. I will let you choose to read or review that post (or not) at your […]

By: Kelly MacKay

Kelly MacKay — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:18:10 +0000

Ive been here, excellent

By: photobyjohnbo

photobyjohnbo — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:19:09 +0000

In reply to Lookoom.Indeed!!

By: Lookoom

Lookoom — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:39:41 +0000

I would love to have the chance to stop at the Crazy Horse memorial one day, but I fear that at some point we will have to build concrete hills to replicate the landscape of the past 🙂

By: photobyjohnbo

photobyjohnbo — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:28:45 +0000

In reply to neihtn2012.I personally think they are doing it on their own schedule, drawing repeat customers who are looking to see the progress since the last time they visited. Truth is, however, I really don’t know. They take tour busses to the mountain work areas (for a princely fee) so that visitors can see the work up close.

By: photobyjohnbo

photobyjohnbo — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:26:32 +0000

In reply to de Wets Wild.As one who also enjoys nature's handiwork, I certainly understand your feelings.

By: de Wets Wild

de Wets Wild — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 03:01:53 +0000

I must admit to having mixed feelings about this sculpture and Mount Rushmore. It certainly is imposing memorials to the heroes they depict and I cannot help but be in awe of the scale of it all, but my heart pangs that beautiful natural scenery should be “defaced” in such a way to glorify humans…

By: neihtn2012

neihtn2012 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:47:29 +0000

I wonder if there is any way to speed this up. Do they lack funding, or sculptors, workers?

By: photobyjohnbo

photobyjohnbo — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:22:32 +0000

In reply to Toonsarah.Thanks. I, too, was fascinated bbackstop. story. I would love to see one of their night blasts.

By: Toonsarah

Toonsarah — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 12:52:04 +0000

Great post! We came here after visiting Mount Rushmore and in some ways I found it even more fascinating – partly because of the back story and partly because seeing such a giant sculpture in progress really make you appreciate the scale of the undertaking. Don’t get me wrong, Mount Rushmore is amazing, but to a non-US citizen it doesn’t have the same emotional impact, and visually, you have seen so many photos before visiting you feel you’ve already seen it. Whereas here I was completely engrossed in the undertaking to create this work!