On the following Sunday, at just before eleven o’clock in the morning, the men of Rushmore assembled outside Keystone’s white-steepled Congregational church at the foot of Mount Aetna. In Sunday-best suits usually a little too tight in the shoulders, hair slicked down and smelling of Brilliantine, faces sun-browned and weathered above white shirt collars, moving with sober restraint and therefore with the self-conscious awkwardness of men whose usual movements are sweeping and unrestrained, they formed into a column. Then, preceded by an honor guard of Keystone Boy Scouts and with Alton “Hoot”
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