A rural Baptist preacher, Howard Finster begins creating sculptures and structures for what he called the Plant Farm Museum (later to be known as Paradise Gardens) on his property in Pennville, Ga. Over his lifetime he would create thousands of religious-themed works and be acclaimed as a true visionary.
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