Summer 2017

Cover Story

Cleaning Jefferson’s nose. A team from Kärcher, a German company specializing in large-scale cleaning projects, uses pressure washers to blast lichen and other organic material off the presidents’ faces at Mount Rushmore. The project began on 4 July 2005 and was completed in early August 2005.

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