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<\/a>It was like hearing that your aged father or grandfather had died. We thought the Old Man of the Mountain would live forever. Yes, we knew about the rehabilitation efforts the state had been doing on the rock formation\u2014the therapy to keep him going. It felt like every new approach would \u201cwork\u201d and keep him going well into the new millennium.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t meant to be.<\/p>\n
The Old Man of the Mountain lost his fight with age and time and passed with a great, earth shattering crash. The news of the collapse stunned everyone for days\u2014even now hearing of it brings back the old memories.<\/p>\n
The news of the demise of the great stone face was reported in the newspapers, and on radio and TV. Family members called one another to share the news, speaking in quiet reverence\u2014still shocked by the fact that the \u201cOld Man\u201d had died. Gather your family\u2019s stories, save them, and pass them down.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t let your story be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The \u201cOld Man of the Mountain\u201d was a granite rock formation in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that looked like the rugged profile of a man\u2019s face. First discovered in 1805, the 40-foot-high face had been N.H.\u2019s state emblem since 1945. But centuries of freezing and thawing eventually did the Old Man in. News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[5302,1129,1658,2233,1762,1758,465,412,5366,2020,27,734,1084,3902,5426,3903,3904,481,4537,3901],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-death","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-father","tag-grandfather","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-new-hampshire","tag-news","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-nh","tag-obituaries","tag-old-man-of-the-mountain","tag-records","tag-rock-formations","tag-state-emblems","tag-tv","tag-white","tag-white-mountains"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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