In this episode we’ll be reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, The Great Stone Face. Hawthorne’s inspiration for the face-like rock formation in the story came from the real-life granite cliffs known as the Old Man of the Mountain which are located in New Hampshire. The formation collapsed in 2003 but has been memorialized as the New Hampshire state emblem since 1945.
4. The Great Stone Face
In this episode we’ll be reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, The Great Stone Face. Hawthorne’s inspiration for the face-like rock formation in the story came from the real-life granite cliffs known as the Old Man of the Mountain which are located in New Hampshire. The formation collapsed in 2003 but has been memorialized as the New Hampshire state emblem since 1945.
The Sound Preserve 