Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of the Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, finally has a much-reduced version of his Hall of Records behind the giant Mt. Rushmore carvings.
The repository, finally created in 1998, contains a number of United States historical documents on 16 porcelain enamel panels encased in a titanium vault. These panels, it's hoped, will explain the purpose and history of the mountain memorial, its country, its presidents, its carvings, and its sculptor to archaeologists tens or hundreds of thousands of years in the future--something of a note in a huge bottle.
For more info., see http://bit.ly/n1Awr6 , http://1.usa.gov/p77n4K ,http://bit.ly/qNabzW , and http://bit.ly/rfHMyj .
The repository, finally created in 1998, contains a number of United States historical documents on 16 porcelain enamel panels encased in a titanium vault. These panels, it's hoped, will explain the purpose and history of the mountain memorial, its country, its presidents, its carvings, and its sculptor to archaeologists tens or hundreds of thousands of years in the future--something of a note in a huge bottle.
For more info., see http://bit.ly/n1Awr6 , http://1.usa.gov/p77n4K ,http://bit.ly/qNabzW , and http://bit.ly/rfHMyj .
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