[Lil'freeper]

Goodness gracious, wht a shame.

[Brilliant]

Apparently, God doesn't like someone in New Hampshire.

[sauropod]

Yup. Sure is.

But don't ask me to box it up for you for a donation as part of your education efforts ;-).

[Ms. Annie Oakley]

Yes, it is a shame! One of my earliest memories is of my dad pointing to the Old Man as we headed through Frankonia on our way to our vacation cottage in NH.

Nothing lasts forever, I guess.

[Celantro]

Man oh man! The economy of this area has been SO bad for SO long that they simply cannot take another hit. I've always loved New Hampshire's North Country but you have to be into the wonders of nature to find anything at all to do there. Pathetic as this may seem, for non-nature lovers and skiers, looking at a rock formation that looked like the face of a bearded, old man was about all there was. There's so much North Country tax money invested in signs, "Old Man Viewing" Parking lots, etc. that are no longer of any vallue to annyone that I wonder what they'll do up there.

New Hampshire? If you're listening, building a new, fake Old Man is NOT the answer. In the words of Bearclaw Chris Lapp of Jeremiah Johnson fame:

"The Mountain's got it's ways, Pilgrim."

Let those ways be.