Saving A Folk Art Paradise (Or Not)

The legacy of legendary folk artist Howard Finster resides mainly on a decaying, overgrown lot in Georgia. “Even as the house is being rebuilt with new walls, floors, fresh paint and a new deck, the World’s Folk Art Church, a chapel with a 16-sided cupola that is the gardens’ signature structure, slumps precariously, and one of its balconies has collapsed.” Now a public fight has broken out between those charged with preserving Finster’s legacy, and those who feel the job is being botched.