Dropped onto a swampy field in Croaker, Va., they've become an accidental tourist attraction: gigantic decaying busts of every U.S. president from George Washington to George W. Bush that are turning a lot of people's heads.
If you've always wanted to get close to a head of state, then make your way to this swampy field just outside Historic Williamsburg, Virginia, where gigantic and decaying busts – some 20 feet tall, weighing several tons each – portray every U.S. president from George Washington to George W. Bush.From Washington to Bush 43: Visitors walk past 42 giant busts of U.S. presidents . But they're an accidental tourist attraction.
Correspondent Rita Braver asked,"Why didn't you wanna say, 'Okay, let's get rid of these things. Nobody wants them'?"So, he decided to use his company resources and move the presidents, which resulted in damage to all of them, some of it major."Lincoln over there, he got dropped and broke the back of his head open a little. He'll be alright, I can fix him. I restored Jackson all the way. So, he got painted up and he looked really good for a while.".
"Which he obliged, I guess maybe because I was very polite to him," said Plashal."And then, I was hooked."So hooked that he convinced Hankins to open the property about once a month, selling tickets online and allowing small groups of visitors and guided tours."It started out locally, then it expanded to a national thing, and now it's international," Plashal said.
And the decaying heads have gained an even bigger following on social media. One TikTok post has almost eight million views.It all sort of delights the man who created the statues, 95-year-old David Adickes."It amazes me," he told Braver."I'm sorry that they were all busted up. If I'd known that they were gonna be moved, I could've told the guy how to move 'em."
A successful painter and sculptor with prominent works in his native Texas, Adickes was originally inspired by a trip to Mount Rushmore in the early 1990s:"I was overwhelmed, but disappointed I couldn't get closer and look in their eyes.""Yeah.
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