Hard Rock Miner

The sculpture "Hard Rock Miner" was fired in the fireplace of Jean's family cabin in the Front Range of Colorado in the 1970's. While on an errand in the little railroad town of Rollinsville at the beginning of a glacial valley, Jean had pointed out to a young man that there was snow up on the Great Divide. "Soon we can ski." she had remarked. ... "I wouldn't put them slats on my feet, the young man replied. "I'd rather go into a burning hole." Indeed, his profession was to put out fires in gold mines...