Article and photos by Kathy M. Newbern & J.S. Fletcher ©2017. All rights reserved. Weathered, oversize gray stone heads sporting elongated faces, hollowed eye sockets, broad noses and jutted jaws rise like massive tombstones from verdant slopes against a craggy, mountain backdrop on Easter Island. Many of the 6,000 or so residents call it Rapa Nui, its Polynesian name. Smaller than Washington, D.C., the roughly 64-square-mile outcrop of volcanic magma was unexpectedly disco