Concrete facelift: Mount Rushmore crews perform crack repairs

October 13, 2011 at 1:30 am in The Daily Republic

KEYSTONE (AP) Mount Rushmore is getting its annual facelift.

Crews on ropes are working to repair time- and weather-related cracks in the national memorial in western South Dakota. The preservation work is done each fall on the granite faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Continue Reading