Monday, July 23, 2018

New Area to Explore

Sunday, July 22, 2018

We got settled in at Stars of Tomorrow Campground in South Charleston, Ohio.


As we usually like to do, we went for a drive to check out the area.  We found a very interesting place called the Hartman Rock Garden in Springfield, Ohio.  This was in a residential area in what was the Hartman's yard.

From their website:

The Hartman Rock Garden is one of the nation's most intriguing and revered works of in situ folk art.
Harry George "Ben" Hartman was born in 1883 in Edenville PA.  At the age of 16, he left home to learn mold-making, a craft at which he quickly became highly-skilled.  Ben married (second wife) Mary in 1928.  They resided in a small house on the corner of Russell and McCain.  In 1932 during the depression, Ben was laid off from his job.  He was not content being sedentary so began by building a fishing pond in his backyard.  He was hooked and began constructing a variety of structures and figures.  Ben died in 1944 and Mary took on the monumental task of maintaining the garden.




















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