Michael Roberts wrote:
What surprised me is that there were 5 faces and not 4 as to the left of
Washington is the distinct impression of a monkey's face in the rock -
natural of course
As it happens, my family was watching a special on Mt. Rushmore last night
and it was said that originally Jefferson's face was to have been on the
other side of Washington, but when the work started it was found that the
stone in that area was not "right" for carving - too many fissures or
something, so the crews at the time stopped work and blasted away what had
already been sculpted and started over on the other side. Could this be a
ghost image of the original unfinished carving? Although it's funnier about
it being Clinton.
Janet Rice
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