It is not impossible that this conceit occurred to Hawthorne before he had himself seen the Old Man of the Mountain, or the Profile, in the
Franconia Notch which is generally associated in the minds of readers with The Great Stone Face.
the solitary horseman of the classic romances--might have been observed wending his way across Franconia in a north-easterly direction, and at a height of about eleven thousand feet above the sea and still spindling slowly.
He had, in fact, crossed the designs of no less a power than the German Empire, he had blundered into the hot focus of Welt-Politik, he was drifting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop silently, swiftly, and on an immense scale the great discoveries of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire of the world.
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Franconia Notch State Park Rental, Ski School, Ski Wee,
The Old Man of the Mountain can still be "seen" thanks to the series of steel rods at the existing plaza at
Franconia Notch State Park.
Franconia Minerals Corporation (TSX:FRA), a Canada-based company that is engaged in acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties, has announced acquiring an interest in the Birch Lake copper-nickel-PGM (platinum group metals) project in the Duluth Complex of Minnesota, US.
Sampson is also a member of the
Franconia Ski Club and enjoys golf, lacrosse, surfing and playing the piano and guitar when he's not on the slopes.
It shows the
Franconia in November 1956 on its last voyage from New York to Liverpool.
30, 1744, Castle Wallerstein, near Nordlingen,
Franconia [Germany]--d.
"We were getting ready to open the visitors center," said O'Connor, park manager for
Franconia Notch State Park.
Tommy Miller, of Orrell Park, who loaned the picture, explains that it was taken in what was termed the ship's 'pig and whistle' on board RMS
Franconia, bound for New York.