CELEBRATING AMERICA’S FREEDOM EVENT Mount Rushmore National Memorial
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t’s known as “T e Face of America” and for good reason. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is one of the most recognizable monuments in our
country. T e faces of George Washington, T omas Jeff erson, T eodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, designed by Gutzon Borglum, were chiseled into the side of mountain in Keystone, South Dakota, over the course of 14 years by nearly 400 men and women. Workers endured extreme weather conditions and climbed 700 stairs every day to the top where they were hooked into a “bosun chair” with 3/8-inch thick steel cables that lowered them over the front of the 500 foot face of the mountain. It was no small feat. National President Colette Bishop admits to hoping
for quite some time that the 2016 Celebrating America’s Freedom Event would take place at Mount Rushmore. “T is is a dream come true,” she said the day of the event. A crisp blue sky met attendees at the National Park’s
National President Colette Bishop speaks at the fourth- annual Celebrating America’s Freedom Event at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, “The Face of America.”
Photo by Alethea Nash.
amphitheater where the ceremony was held. Illinois members Rhonda Borkgren and Lynn Smith posted the Colors. T ere was just enough breeze to lift the red, white and blue off its pole and send it waving. After a processional of Color Bearer Flags and Department Presidents from across the country, National Chaplain Peggy Haake off ered the opening prayer followed by National Soloist Willa Watts singing the national anthem.
“The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation and unifi cation of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.”
—GUTZON BORGLUM, SCULPTOR, MOUNT RUSHMORE |
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