Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about "The Great Stone Face." Statesman Daniel Webster said, "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." Through the years, the profile became the subject of paintings and literature. "While 3-inch turnbuckles had been bolted into the Old Man to try and prevent it from falling, the actual strength of the granite was degraded over centuries, and that's probably why it collapsed." "The Old Man of the Mountain may have weighed nearly 2,000 tons when it collapsed," said Maclay, who plans to speak about his research Wednesday.
Viewers can see the model up close and at different angles. He also used original film negatives taken between 19 that documented the formation and area. He was assisted by Dartmouth collaborators who used a drone to do aerial surveys. Maclay, who is studying soil and rock samples from the mountain, created an online interactive 3D model of the Old Man as it was. A research project led by Dartmouth College graduate student Matthew Maclay estimates it was 750 cubic meters - "more volume than five school buses," he said. Today, there's a better sense of the volume and mass of rock that was lost when the Old Man fell from Cannon Mountain. Geologists believe it formed sometime after the end of the Ice Age, perhaps as long as 12,000 years ago. It's not clear how old it was New Hampshire historical records mention it as early as 1805. The Old Man was created by a series of geological events going back millions of years. His departure was a stunning and shocking event, Fowler said. "When he was up there, he represented a kind of reliantly steady, reassuring presence in a world that was otherwise changing really rapidly," said Brian Fowler, a geologist and president of the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund that plans to lead an online tribute Wednesday, with shared stories, poetry, and a new song. It collapsed, and the rubble was discovered the morning of May 3, 2003.
The 40-foot-tall (12-meter-tall) natural rock formation - a series of ledges that resembled an old man's face - was suspended 1,200 feet (366 meters) above Franconia Notch, held in place by turnbuckles and rods to fight erosion. Two decades after New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain crumbled to pieces, the state is paying tribute to the granite profile that symbolizes its independence with new geological research, poetry, a song, and a scavenger hunt.
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