Chiseled in Time: Sculptor's vision of great lakota warrior lives on at crazy horse memorial in South Dakota

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: August 27, 2006| Author: Dave Hoekstra | Copyright information

CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, S.D. -- The young reach for the stars. Every road is a magic carpet. Over time some warriors fall behind clouds, others get swept away in storms.

But Ruth Ziolkowski is a lucky woman. She has lived in the heavens above the Black Hills.

Ruth is the widow of Korczak Ziolkowski, a sculptor who dreamed big. On June 3, 1948, Korczak began carving the likeness of Oglala Lakota leader Crazy Horse into a granite mountain in the southern Black Hills, about 45 mil...

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