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Preserving
the Heads
of State
by Amanda S. Creasey, Outdoors Writer
Abandoned presidential
statues have a bright future
in Williamsburg
W
hen people think of
Williamsburg, Va., outlet
shopping and Colonial history
are likely what come to mind. What
might not be at the forefront of most
people's thoughts is Presidents Park,
a long-closed sculpture park featuring
larger-than-life busts of 42 U.S.
presidents. When the park closed
roughly a decade ago, Howard Hankins
was hired to remove and dispose of the
nearly four dozen 18- to 20-foot-tall
presidential busts.
Engineering a way to transport the
massive sculptures, each weighing over
10 tons, was no simple feat. Ultimately,
Hankins achieved the task by " putting
a hole in the top of the head of each one
so he could lift them up and load them
on trailers, " says Mark M. Jakobowski,
president of Pathmark Consulting and
Design, and director of development
and planning for a project that is in
the planning phase to provide a home
for the sculptures.
Hankins then decided to preserve the
presidential busts, transporting them to
his ancestral farmland in Williamsburg.
According to Jakobowski, ownership of
the land dates back to the 17th century
and was a land grant from
a British king. Ironically,
42 U.S. president busts
now reside on the remaining
300-acre parcel.
STOIC SENTINELS
Although Presidents
Park is closed, the busts
are accessible to visitors in
their location on Hankins'
property a few select times
a year. Those who wish to
see them, as they currently
sit in a state of semi-decay
just across a mulch pile
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from heavy equipment, must purchase
tickets in advance for a set date and time.
I arrived at the site with my two
dogs and a friend on a cloudy Saturday
afternoon. We pulled onto the property
and down a long, dusty gravel drive, past
an old family home, dating back to the
1700s, where a woman directing traffic
pointed to a parking area bounded by
cranes, bulldozers and dump trucks.
We stepped out into the dusty lot
and walked across the drive, passing a
food and beverage tent on our way to
check in. I purchased a hot apple cider
and sipped it beneath the stoic stone
stare of the bust of Abraham Lincoln,
a rather grotesque hole in the back of
its head.
While the Kintsugi nature of the
busts inspires the imagination and strikes
a certain mood of awe and wonder,
future plans for the busts include at least
a partial restoration. " Some people think
part of the beauty is that they are falling
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