Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — TO SAVE “OLD MAN’S” HEAD [ARTICLE]

TO SAVE “OLD MAN’S” HEAD

Rook In Franconia Notch Immortal, ized by HawthorneLoaing Its Contour. Concord, N. H.—“ The Old Man of the Mountain,” as the profile rock in Franconia Notch has been known foryears, is losing its head and Gov. Rolland H. Spaulding and his council were engaged recently, in considering means of repairing the loss. Through Rev. Guy Roberts of Whitefield the governor’s attention was called to the fact that winter storms had moved the stone, which forms the forehead of “The Great Stone Face,” the name by which the rock was immortalized by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The great stone, which is in danger of toppling over, would carry with it the rock masses forming the nose and chin. A return of the forehead stone to its original position and the construction of a buckle arrangement to bind it firmly to the head is proposed.