JEFFERSON PARISH, La. (WGNO) — Jefferson Parish continues to have a good time its Bicentennial, and at Jefferson Parish East Financial institution Regional Library they’re doing so by making busts of Thomas Jefferson.

They’re celebrating the bicentennial via honoring the third President of the USA of America, Thomas Jefferson.

“One of many some ways we as a library have participated within the bicentennial is we had our Maker group put collectively a stunning bust,” mentioned Jessica Styons, Library Director at Jefferson Parish Library.

Styons went on to say, “Just a little enjoyable truth is that Jefferson was nonetheless alive when Jefferson Parish got here into being 200 years in the past, so it is a enjoyable means of honoring him.

They have been promoting the Thomas Jefferson busts and encourage the neighborhood to brighten them with the “Present Us Your Busts” program.

Shannon Kitchens is the Makerspace Librarian and alongside along with her group they labored exhausting to make the 18-inch busts.

“The outside half is a mom mould and what it does is holds the silicone collectively when casting, and whenever you open it up, you possibly can see the bottom and the bicentennial brand,” mentioned Kitchens. “Then we lock him up actual good, and we bungee the mould closed.”

Kitchens continued to elucidate the method of constructing the busts.

“We then use a cloth, a resin plastic and we pour it in after which we actually sit there and switch him like a rotisserie hen, ensuring that we get all of the crevices,” Kitchens mentioned. “It takes 45 minutes to get him turned after which one other two and a half hours for him to remedy.”

Jefferson Parish Library presently has a restricted provide left of the busts and they’re promoting them for $100 every.

In November, Jefferson Parish Library celebrated its personal milestone, its seventy fifth anniversary.

Thomas Jefferson was president when the USA purchased the Louisiana territory from France in 1803.

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