The Old Man of the Mountain: A Story in Five Pieces

Iconography by Charles Gustine

Nov 15, 201901:12:43Arts

How does a group of people hold onto an icon when… well, when that icon can no longer be held? In 2003, New Hampshire's state emblem, the Old Man of the Mountain, a massive granite face on a mountainside, crumbled 198 ye...

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