One Man's Rock Garden Passion Becomes a Landmark

From: All Things Considered (NPR) | Date: February 7, 1996 | Copyright information

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Milton Walker began his rock garden in the backyard of his Seattle home in 1954 and it grew and grew. The beautiful garden, considered a folk art site, is studded with rocks, glass, miniature towns, and plants.

NOAH ADAMS, Host: Today we often describe artists like Milton Walker as primitive or visionary. But back in 1954, Walker was simply a machinist who worked at the Boeing factory in Seattle and who had started building a rock garden in his backyard. Over the next three decades, the rock garden consumed Milton Walker and his backyard. The Walker rock garden is now ...

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