Stone carver's family fights to honor his lead role in realizing Mount Rushmore sculptor's vision

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Luigi Del Bianco was sculptor Gutzon Borglum's chief carver. Bianco, at left on scaffold, repairs a crack in Jefferson's lip.

POSTED: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2014 12:30 AM
By David Hendee / World-Herald staff writer

Founding Father George Washington’s noble visage — and wig.

Thomas Jefferson’s vision of expansion — and an invisible cracked lip.

Abraham Lincoln’s focus on preserving the Union.

Theodore Roosevelt’s target of national unification — and individual ruggedness.

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