Date uploaded: 2021-10-21 20:15:23
Some people call it “America’s Stonehenge.” It was built by one man over the course of nearly 40 years.
Harvey Fite spent just over 37 years creating Opus 40, a picturesque sculpture garden in New York state that was built using technology no more advanced than a carpenter's level, as he liked to say.
Fite would sculpt indoors in the winter. He’d work with stone in the summer. He chased his artistic vision for the better part of four decades. But he was ultimately doomed by the same gravity that holds his garden together.
Today, thousands of visitors a year stand spellbound, mouths agape, at what he created, the scale of it all. One man made all of this.
📸: Peter Carr, Carrie Yale and Peter D. Kramer, The Rockland/Westchester Journal News; Devin Ross, Ross Aerials; courtesy of Tad Richards.
