Plymouth Rock

[poliphilo]

So that's what Plymouth Rock looks like. 

I dunno, I 've been hearing about it all my life and had sort of imagined it as a geological feature of some size and presence.  You know, craggy, looming, extensive, grand- a promontory perhaps. 

Something along the lines of The Giant's Causeway.

And it's just a rock. A small rock. You could pick it up with a forklift. That is, if it wasn't cemented into place. 

We've got better looking rocks in our local, neighbourhood park.

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We've been told...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

We... that's us New Englanders that have grown up around there... we've been told that in 1629 it was indeed significantly larger but that people(damn those people!) have been taking home chunks of it as a souvenir for years.

Re: We've been told...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it was never that big, was it? I mean, it was never anything more than a boulder.

Re: We've been told...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

I really have no clue beyond what I've been told but... how much do we think that people could chip away in 377 years?

Re: We've been told...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Quite a lot, I suppose.

I've been researching the rock's long and confusing history. It's been broken several times, glued together again and moved about from place to place. It has been calculated that the upper section- which was broken off in 1775 but is now reunited with its base- is about 1/3 of its original size.