Sarah Prial

Sarah Prial

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Sarah Prial fled her degree in Media Studies and Digital Culture to become a writer. In addition to contributing to mental_floss, Sarah has written for Gawker Media and Gilt City and various blogs. Sarah is a third place Trivia Night champion who loves thesauruses, time lords and for reasons unbeknownst to her, high fashion.

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Remembering the Old Man of the Mountain

New Hampshire is a pretty nifty state. Aside from having one of the most gleefully in-your-face mottos, it also was home to the Old Man of the Mountain. The “Old Man” – not a bearded grumbling cave dweller – was a formation of ledges in the White Mountains above Profile Lake in Franconia Notch State Park . In profile, the ledges looked exactly like a man. First recorded in 1805 and discovered by the author of this piece in an overlong road trip up the Eastern Seaboard in 1995, the Old Man collapsed... READ ON

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