Rock-Solid

I have read about a sad day in May 2003 when “The Old Man of the Mountain” broke apart and slid down the mountainside. This 40-foot profile of an old man’s face, carved by nature in the White Mountains of New Hemisphere, had long been an attraction to tourists, a solid presence of residents, and the official state emblem. It was written about by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his story The Great Stone Face.

Some nearby residents were devastated when The Old Man fell. One woman said, “I grew up thinking that someone watching over me. I feel a little less watched-over now.”

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