After retiring from farm life in 1959, Rusch began building concrete, stone and rock sculptures near the village of Milton. By the mid '70s, he had nearly 40 creations.
He made them mostly by hand and the pieces are about as random as it gets.
"Whatever inspired him at the moment," Marj Schaffner-Kanmueller said. "Eccentric. People thought he was strange."
Rusch built a snake, a church, a tower, a bear fighting a man and even dinosaurs.
"We've got our own Jurassic Park here," Schaffner-Kanmueller said...
He made them mostly by hand and the pieces are about as random as it gets.
"Whatever inspired him at the moment," Marj Schaffner-Kanmueller said. "Eccentric. People thought he was strange."
Rusch built a snake, a church, a tower, a bear fighting a man and even dinosaurs.
"We've got our own Jurassic Park here," Schaffner-Kanmueller said...
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