Rafters recover baffling stone tablet [Delaware River, PA]

TimesHerald-Record ^ | Oct 15, 2015 | Pat DeMono, For the Gazette

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[exnavy]

Ping

[kabar]

Not far from where I grew up in Port Jervis.

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Your turn...

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Not far from where I grew up in Port Jervis.

[exnavy]

;^)

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[bk1000]

“I leave early”. Written in the present tense. Sounds a little like a suicide note.

[logi_cal869]

Someone’s idea of art or, for that matter humor.

Just because it’s carved into a piece of stone doesn’t make it any less just another piece of Grafitti or garbage thrown into the river.

There will be those that argue this a piece of art or poetry, but I view it differently

Even stupid people have creative/artistic capability.

But it amuses me to no end the possible final thought rolling through the author’s mind in the remaining moments of consciousness after he jumped into the river, the stone tablet weighing him or her down:

“SHIT! I didn’t sign my stone!”

Or, from another perspective, the young prankster awaiting the right time to claim authorship of the discarded, poorly-executed prank.

Whatever. If it were written in 18th century prose and were well-weathered, I’d be more interested.

Thx for the amusement...

[Beach333]

Sounds like it could’ve been on a headstone.

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Just because it’s carved into a piece of stone doesn’t make it any less just another piece of Graffiti or garbage thrown into the river.

[Sacajaweau]

Only one letter in lower case....the "r". (But I'll have to check again).

The M is unique. I don't think it's old. The words, punctuation, printing and text is hardly ancient or clever.

Sounds like a 20 year old runaway.....and fairly recent.

Might even be just a ruse. I only say that because of what I did with my masonry tools in Virginia. :-)

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I suspect the mysterious stone carver may have been a FReeper! Check out the way he/she spelled "you're" in that one line.

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[logi_cal869]

WAY to serious.

I’m a bit of a romantic in my own right, but the stone is far more ‘amusing’ from my own POV than it is ‘romantic’...

[smokingfrog]

though weary be
the shapeless loneliness

knowingly held
in love and light,

does casts in stone
the shape of hope

where there once
was naught

[bgill]

A gravestone.

[Political Junkie Too]

Hey... wait a minute...

That looks like a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman, and run through the river for 15 generations to make them look old. ;-)

-PJ