I've always enjoyed the noion of Mount Rushmore being a monument to the ideas that resided in those heads, not the heads themselves. Nature being as prolific in all things as she is, I think she can spare a mountain to indulge a little idealism.

As for the Mount Rushmore of folk music, I'm afrtaid you'd need a hundred mountains just to start, and I think any of the candidates would prefer to hear their music being sung or played than to see their faces carved in a hill somewhere. I'm for doing that instead!

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