Sad sad day for us new englanders not to mention our brothers and sisters up north
I feel lucky to have made the stop last year just to photograph him.....
Him is the Old Man of the mountain that pretty much was the icon of New hampshire, it was on their quarter and on all their state signs. The old man was a rock formation resembling an old mans face and it crumbled.
This has got to be heart breaking for many to lose such an attraction so many an artist has painted the old man and now all that seems to remain is memories and some very vivid paintings & photographs
[ May 03, 2003, 08:46 PM: Message edited by: Bob Rochon ]
Posted by Bob Burns (Member # 268) on :
Hell...and here I always thought that was a sculpture of O.P.! Posted by Mike Lavallee (Member # 320) on :
Growing up in NH I remember going up to Franconia Notch and having to stop and gaze up to the top of the mountain to see the old mans profile. it was a shock to me when I got a call from home with the news. it's like if the faces of Mnt. Rushmore fell off. I believe that the state has enough documentation of the rocks formations to reproduce a faux reconstructive surgery on the old mans face. I believe we could remake the rocks that formed the face out of fiberglass and faux finish them to look like the natural granite rock and fuse it to the remaining rock face. well, it wont be the same as the original but neither are silicone implants but we live with those just fine!
Mike
Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :
Hey, I believe I saw that when I traveled through NH with the Balche's!!!
Ernie? Am I right?
I seem to remember it looking just like that.
A:)
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
sux indeed! Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
For those who never saw it here is the best I could find on the net right from the the franconia web site. its too cool!!! Posted by E. Balch (Member # 3545) on :
"Hey, I believe I saw that when I traveled through NH with the Balche's!!!
Ernie? Am I right?
I seem to remember it looking just like that.
A:)"
Well Adrienne, you could have seen it with X-ray vision. We cut thru NH south of there so you probably saw all the signs advertising it.
ernie
Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :
i saw the old man not more than a few months ago, sadly I didnt bother stopping to look, kinda take it for granted after a while. now gonna look up every time and say, thats where he was
Posted by Stephen Faulkner (Member # 2511) on :
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now gonna look up every time and say, thats where he was