In 1956, a 60-year-old California woman found building blocks too expensive and began hauling bottles from a dump; 25 years later she had turned tens of thousands of discarded objects into a 15-building folk-art village

• When Tressa Prisbrey was 60 years old, she wanted to build a small shed for her large pencil collection.
• In 1956, she found that concrete blocks cost more than she could afford.
• Rather than give up, the California resident began collecting thousands of discarded glass bottles and household items from a nearby landfill.