Little man of the mountains
Smallmanomtns, Lantern Hill
The Old Man of the Mountains—the stern stone face that graced the side of Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire—may have collapsed on May 3, 2003, but our hard-rock cliffs are not without pretenders to the profile throne. I don't think this one, found on the side of an outcrop on Lantern Hill, will inspire quite the adoration that the Great Stone Face, immortalized by Nathaniel Hawthorne, did before its demise. But, you have to admit, it does bear a modest resemblance to the iconic one, which, alas, now rests in pieces, awaiting the attention of a skilled igneous surgeon equipped with an inordinately large crane. Until the next glaciation, the large Old Man is probably gone. In the meanwhile, we have the next best thing—in relative miniature.