> > Everybody is talking about the Old Man, aka The
> >Great Stone Face, and what could have, would
> > have, should have happened to it, but nobody
> >mentions the really great, true story of how it
> >got there.
> > Like most of the topographical features of New
> >England, The Old Man is the result of glaciation
> > during the last ice age.
>
> No no no Howard, you've got it all wrong. As any good resident or former resident of New Hampshire can tell you, it's a sign from God.
>
> In the days before literacy was prevalent, merchants would hang up signs with pictures of their wares on them. A cobbler would hang up a sign with a shoe on it to show that he made shoes. A blacksmith would hang up a horseshoe to show that he made horseshoes. Well, in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung up a sign to show that there he makes Men.
>
> -- Dave

I've seen the face. I guess He made ugly men.
Howard