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A monumental club project in South Dakota

南達科他州一個意義非凡的扶輪社計畫

報導：克里斯汀‧波普 Kristen Pope
翻譯：鳳山南區扶輪社 張延惠 Daniel Chang
資料來源：國際扶輪網站新聞及多媒體報導(2026年6月)
https://www.rotary.org/en/rotary-projects-around-globe-June-2026

It would be, quite simply, the largest sculpture 簡而言之，這將是世界上最大的雕塑：一座
in the world: a colossal likeness of Crazy Horse, the 巨大的雕像，描繪的是奧格拉拉．拉科塔族酋長
Oglala Lakota chief, on a galloping stallion carved
into the granite of a mountain in the Black Hills of 瘋馬騎在一匹奔騰的駿馬上，雕刻在南達科他州
South Dakota. But in 1949, about a year into the 黑山山脈的花崗岩上。但在1949年，也就是計畫
project, sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski ran into a 進行大約一年後，雕塑家科爾恰克．齊奧爾科夫
vexing problem. He needed stairs. Lots of them.
"It was a very tedious process, and he just wasn't 斯基遇到了一個棘手的問題。他需要台階，而且
moving as fast as he wanted, so he put a request out to 是很多台階。負責管理該遺址的瘋馬紀念館退休
the community," says Marguerite Cullum, a retired staff 圖書館員瑪格麗特．卡勒姆說﹕「這是一個非常
librarian at the Crazy Horse Memorial, which manages
the site. 繁瑣的過程，他的進度遠不及預期，所以他向當
Answering the call was the nearby Rotary Club of 地社區提出了請求。」
Custer. The members' task was to help assemble a 700- 響應號召的是附近的卡斯特扶輪社。社員的
foot wooden staircase running from the valley floor 任務是協助搭建一條700英尺長的木製階梯，從
to the top of Thunderhead Mountain. They formed a
human chain, passing each piece of lumber—29 tons of 山谷底部直通雷頭山山頂。他們形成一條人鏈，
it—from person to person up the side of the mountain to 將29噸重的木材一根根傳遞到山腰，最後建造了
help construct the 741 steps. "Think how risky that was 741級台階。該社前任社長、現任秘書卡勒姆說﹕
for them," says Cullum, a past president of the club and
its current secretary. "And they went and did it, and, as 「可想這對他們來說有多危險，他們去了，而且
far as I know, they were the only ones that showed up. I 據我所知，他們是唯一在場的人。我沒有找到任
couldn't find that any anybody else attended."
何其他人參與的記錄。」

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