PHOTO TAKEN 26JUN01 - Ruth, wife of self taught sculpture [Korczak] Ziolowski points to work...

- PHOTO TAKEN 26JUN01 - Ruth, wife of self taught sculpture [Korczak] Ziolowski points to work that has been completed on the Crazy Horse Monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Ruth came to South Dakota in 1948, when she and group of east coasters volunteered on the fledging project and two years later married Korczak. The two raised their 10 children working on the project. When [Korczak] died in 1982, despite nay-sayers, she never even considered abandoning the mission. Today, as Chief Executive Officer she wears many hats, grandmother, mother, fundraiser, and operations manager. \"It had been my life, too, for all those years,\" she remembered with fondness. \"I wouldn't have known what else to do.\