The Ghost of the Old Man of the Mountain ?

"……but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men." With these words Daniel Webster made the granite rock face famous.
According to the New Hampshire State Parks department The Old Man of the Mountain, nicknamed the Great Stone Face or Profile, was located in Franconia Notch State Park. The Old Man of the Mountain was scenically set 1,200' above Profile Lake. Discovered in 1805, the rocks that made up the profile collapsed on May 3, 2003.
Within days of the face falling talk of re-building began .A legacy fund was established in 2007 to raise money and oversee the construction and installation of a memorial to the Old Man of the Mountain.
I remember as a child over forty years ago, with some disappointment seeing the Great Stone Face for the first time and being puzzled by others awe of it .A rock climber I knew scaled the Great Face before the fall in the late 1990’s and mentioned that it was anchored to the rock face by a webbed mass of old and rusting cables.
A Political force field? My suspicion for years has been that the Great Face locked New Hampshire into some strange 1950’s Republican time warp. Somehow it exerted a powerful conservative force field over New Hampshire. Then by way of the all but trademarked First-in-the-Nation-Presidential-Primary it extended this force across the entire U S. Primary candidates had to cope with the strangely conservative nature of New Hampshire under the Great Face.Political change has come since the fall the New Hampshire state legislature now has a Democratic majority and their Democratic governor is in his second term along with a newly elected Democratic US Senator.
Recent developments cause one to consider what strange new political force might be unleashed on the Granite State .Metaphysical talk of the ghost of the old man and a glass prosthesis face cause justifiably a certain unease . Architect Francis Treves of New Jersey has won a New Hampshire chapter of Architects Institute of America’s annual award for an un-built project competition with a proposal for 45 foot glass replica of the Old Man. His proposal would allow visitors inside the structure and make it a tourist attraction of the magnitude of the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

Architecture this Week explains further: This “Ghost of the Old Man” replacement is an attempt to solve a complex physical and spiritual problem. The nexus between conception and transcendence was conceived as a dense block of ice returning to its glacial origins. At the same time, a vacant glass volume allows it to dematerialize in sunlight. This project evolved as a “Glass Prosthesis” representing a moment in time where afterlife and birth co-exist.

I believe fears of newly awakened powers for the Old Man can be put to rest with the knowledge of New Hampshire’s tax averse nature. News reports note, the (NH) state House killed two bills that would have created monuments to the Old Man, mostly because of the hefty price tags.

Glass Old Man of the Mountain