King's Memorial Takes Shape Near His 'Dream' Spot
Speech, delivered in 1963 from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. This year on that date, a memorial to the great civil rights leader will be dedicated.On Washington's Tidal Basin, in view of the Lincoln Memorial and almost directly across from the Jefferson Memorial, the new monument is being carved.
Gigantic cliffs of granite form the entryway to the memorial. Carved with chunky lines, they're like the massive stone curtains of a theater, telling you something important is about to happen. Behind the cliffs, you can see the waters of the Tidal Basin, sparkling gently in the sun.
King's Words, Carved In Stone
Some of King's most memorable words are being carved into the walls of his memorial, which sits on a four-acre site. Nick Benson is the chief carver. His other projects include the World War II memorial and carvings at the Capitol. Benson designed the clean, modern font being carved into the granite. He used a rubber stencil to trace the 3 ¾-inch-tall letters onto the wall and is now incising them into the stone with a pneumatic hammer.
"Very, very, very rarely is it hand-cut," Benson says. "The pneumatic hammer is just a piston hitting the chisel, so it's a much more rapid process. The skill that it takes to do the work we do is no different with a pneumatic hammer than with a hammer and chisel."
Benson is a third-generation stone carver. His grandfather did the inscriptions for the Iwo Jima memorial in Washington, and his father did both the FDR memorial and the Kennedy Center.
Benson did a good deal of research before starting work on the King monument. He watched newsreel and TV clips of King, watching how the practitioner of nonviolence moved as well as hearing his great oratory. In one clip, an interviewer was trying to get a rise out of King, prodding him about Malcolm X with his messages on black power.
"Not only did he not buy into it, but he was able to ratchet the whole conversation down," Benson recalls. "He turned it into an intellectual discussion, and he just completely decimated this guy."
That clip showed Benson the power of non-violent confrontation. Benson was born in 1964, a year after the famous I Have a Dream speech. Growing up in Rhode Island, he didn't know much about non-violence, King or the civil rights movement.
"My parents were getting divorced," he says. "I was a kid in turmoil, so I didn't have a lot of time around the TV.
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"You know Percy Shelley's poem, Ozymandias? 'Look on my work, ye mighty, and despair.' Nothing will last. Nothing is eternal, so all of manmade objects will disintegrate away," Benson says. "But this'll stay here for a while."
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