Howard Hankins rescued the giant busts of former U.S. presidents from the closed Presidents Park in Colonial Williamsburg when he was commissioned to destroy them.
Hankins had helped construct Presidents Park, and while he wasn’t necessarily in the position to inherit 43 humongous heads, he didn’t have the heart to destroy them, either.
The busts of former presidents — from George Washington to George W. Bush — are 18 to 20 feet, each weighing between 11,000 and 20,000 pounds.
There are two glaring omissions from the array of busts: Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Presidents Park ran out of funding before it could commission a full-sized bust after Obama was elected in 2008, and the park closed in 2010, well before Trump took office.
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