In 1932, an Ohio foundry worker lost his job and began building a rock garden; he spent 12 years creating hundreds of structures, and his wife preserved it for another 53 years

When Harry George "Ben" Hartman lost his job as an iron moulder at the Springfield Machine Tool Company during the Great Depression, he picked up a trowel and began digging a small concrete fishing pond in his backyard. That simple project soon grew across his entire residential lot.

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