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Help New Hampshire Restore the Old Man of the Mountain.

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The Old Man of the Mountain was gone. Some time during the night he had collapsed into a heap of roaring, stony rubble and a timeless landmark was no more.

Before he fell, you could see him clearly enough from Interstate 93; his crusty, sharp-edged face jutting from the side of Profile Mountain. Resembling a Roman soldier, he was a wondrous, geological oddity about which much has been written and of which countless photos taken.

His sudden departure grieves the residents of this proud state, more for the loss of the tradition the Old Man engendered than by his being scratched from tourists' itineraries. His was a startling, nature-crafted visage, about which Daniel Webster wrote: "Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; 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."

In a quirky twist of fate, the same thing that granted the Old Man his existence may very well have taken it from him. The five separate, granite layers comprising his face were formed in part by a combination of ice and frost. And just as frost heaves ripple the roads here in late winter, so too, perhaps, did they pry him from his perch. It had, after all, been a long and brutally cold winter; a record breaker in many of these parts. Temperature fluctuations as it ebbed had whipsawed Profile Mountain, and the Old Man just got too tired to hold on.

But death in this case may well yet be cheated. There's a movement afoot to restore the Old Man using today's engineering wizardry. The state's governor has set up a special restoration fund and the Old Man Revitalization Task Force. You can join NewEnglandGuide.Com in sending donations to resurrect him. Contributions can be sent to:

Old Man of the Mountain Revitalization Fund
c/o Governor's Office
State House
Concord, NH 03301

MA Governor Romney
Is a Life Saver
Continued from the Home Page

An antique wooden speedboat began taking on water sank suddenly in deep water on Lake Winnipesaukee on a dark Saturday night. Josh and Craig Romney, the governor's sons, heard the screams of those on board. The boys and the governor hopped on two small watercraft and helped the shipwrecked passengers (including McKenzie, their Scotty) to shore.