Two decades after New Hampshire’s famed Old Man of the Mountain crumbled to pieces, the state is paying tribute to the granite profile that symbolizes its independence with new geological research, poetry, a song, and a scavenger hunt.
, with shared stories, poetry, and a new song. His departure was a stunning and shocking event, Fowler said.
graduate student Matthew Maclay estimates it was 750 cubic meters — “more volume than five school buses,” he said.created an online interactive 3D model of the Old Man Through the years, the profile became the subject of paintings and literature. Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about"The Great Stone Face." Statesman Daniel Webster said, “Shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there he makes men.”
The Old Man became the Granite State’s most recognizable symbol — the Legislature adopted it as the state emblem in 1945, and it still appears on the state quarter, highway signs, license plates and souvenirs.Fundraising began for a memorial soon after the Old Man tumbled. Today, visitors tocan “see” the Old Man's profile through a series of steel rods driven into a granite base that hang over a lake and point toward the cliff. Each has a series of irregular shapes on the side.
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