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AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: One man’s salvation

Produced by Marc Martin and Don Bartletti

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Audio slide show: Salvation Mountain


For nearly 25 years, Leonard Knight has spent his days, and many of his nights, painting pastoral designs and biblical quotations on a three-story mound of adobe in the Imperial Valley desert he calls his Salvation Mountain. What was supposed to be a one-week trip to paint a small religious monument has become a lifelong endeavor.


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