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SET IN STONE – GRANITE by Patricia L. Cook

Granite is a rock formed by the slow cooling of molten material called magma found deep beneath the earth’s surface. Typically, granite contains the minerals quartz, feldspar and mica. • All of us have probably seengranite as a rock in science class, as tombstones in cemeteries, as countertops in kitchens and in many memorials worldwide. It can also be observed in natural land features such as Stone Mountain near Atlanta, Georgia.• StoneMountainParkcontainsthelargest mass of exposed granite on earth.Acarvingononesideofthelargegranite rock is of three Confederate heroes, President Jefferson Davis, Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. It is the biggest bas relief sculpture in the world. (Bas-relief sculptures are made by chipping away at slabs of rock.) • TheConfederatefiguresmeasure90 x 190 feet (27 x 58 m) and are surrounded by a carved surface that covers three acres (1.2 ha). It is recessed 42 feet (13 m) into the mountain. The idea for the memorial was hatched in 1909, but it was not dedicated until 1970. • Carver Gutzon Borglum startedthe project, but his work was later totally blasted from the mountain. He went on to his most famous work of art, Mount Rushmore.

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GRANITE(continued):• Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills

of South Dakota was worked on by about 400 men and women from October 1927 to October 1941. Doane Robinson is known as the “Father of Mount Rushmore,” since it was his idea for colossal carvings in his home state. He contacted Gutzon Borglum about the project while Borglum was working on Stone Mountain.

• Dynamite was used for 90 percent of the carving on Mount Rushmore, blasting about 450,000 tons (408 million kg) of rock out of the way for the artistic renderings of four U.S. presidents. The presidents and the years their carvings were finishedwere:GeorgeWashington,1934; Thomas Jefferson, 1936; Abraham Lincoln, 1937; andTheodore Roosevelt, 1939. The area receives about three million visitors per year.

• One of the earliest railroads in America was constructedspecifically to haul granite.Located near present-day Quincy, Massachusetts, the 12-mile Granite Railway was used to transport granite rock from the Granite Railway Quarry to dock facilities on the Neponset River. Loaded onto ships, the granite was transported to other locations, often including Boston to supply the city’s growing construction industry.

• One of the first noteworthystructures constructed of granite was King’s Chapel in Boston. This small church was completed in 1754 and was built of granite quarried from the Granite Railway Quarry. The church still stands but is dwarfed by the surrounding skyscrapers of downtown Boston.

• The Official State Rock of NorthCarolina is “Mount Airy White,”which is from the quarry of the same name. The white granite has been harvested from the “world’s largest open-faced quarry” since 1743.

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Did you know that exercise and fitnessimproveyouroveralldayto day wellness? They provide lots of great benefits you can’tgain from anything else, including reduced stress levels, improved skin tone, better sleep, and brighter mood. You also have fewer colds and less illness. While exercise and fitness givethe obvious benefits of generalhealth, a lean physique and a healthy heart, they also increase energy and reduce fatigue even when people just do thirty minutes, three times per week.

More importantly, exercise accelerates anti-aging effects on your cells, turning back your inner body’s clock. Pushing up on repair and pushing down on damage of the “seesaw of damage and repair” helps keep you younger longer. This effect is consistent each time you work out, regardless of age or condition. If you feel fatigued during the day, then some quick and simple exercise can help you.You should plan some weekly exercise sessions and stick to them. You can find a personaltrainer if you want to be held accountable. For one-on-one fitness coaching, contactDave Elder, CFT, at InfiniteFitness, 260-602-6708. For more health and wellness tips, go to www.facebook.com/slimdownforlife and click “like”.

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GRANITE(continued):• Mount Airy is also known for

being the home of Andy Griffith.His television show about life in the fictional town of Mayberry iscelebrated each September with “Mayberry Days.” Also, the 50thAnniversary of the “Andy GriffithShow”washeldattheAndyGriffithMuseum in October 2010 in Mount Airy.

• Granite is the name of an unincorporated village in Baltimore County, Maryland. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was built in the 1830s using the locally quarried granite, mainly for the bridges. The local quarries provided granite for parts of theWashingtonMonument,Libraryof Congress and more government buildingsinWashington,D.C.TheGranite National Historic district includes about 62 properties all from the late 19th century.

• The“GraniteCenteroftheWorld,”Barre, Vermont, is internationally recognized for its high number of artists adept at stone cutting, etching and sandblasting. “Barre Gray” granite has been quarried and used for products since the late1700s.Accordingtogeologicalestimates, the quarries in Barre have a supply that should last about 4,500 years. The city is home to the Vermont Granite Museum & Stone ArtsSchool.

• Across the Canadian border fromVermont is another city known for granite and with a granite museum. Stanstead, Quebec, is the “Granite Capital of Canada” and home of the GranitExpo & Museum of Stanstead. The area was originally made up of three villages, which were Stanstead Plain, Rock Island and Beebe Plain. The name Stanstead was adopted in 1995. “Stanstead Grey Granite” is, “the cornerstone of the local economy, the rock, as it were, upon which Stanstead is built.”

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Answers1. Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski did it in 1968. 2. Jeff Torborg (1990-’91), Gene Lamont (‘92-’95), Terry Bevington (‘95-’97) and Jerry Manuel (‘98-’99).3. Running backs Earl Campbell (1977) and RickyWilliams(1998).4. Cleveland (1981-’82), Detroit (‘83-’92), New Jersey (‘92-’94) and Orlando (‘97-’99).5. It was 2000, when they lost to New Jersey in theconferencequarterfinalround.6.Hehad26top-fivefinishesin35races.7. Bjorn Borg, with six.

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• Itwas legendaryAmericancrimenovelistRexStoutwhomade the followingsage observation: “Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with whichmillionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.”

• If you have an aversion to bugs, you might not want to take a vacation in Borneo anytime soon. The world’s third largest island is home to a particular stick insect that, measuring in at 14 inches, is the longest insect in the world.

• You might be surprised to learn that the earliest recorded reference to a vending machine dates back to the first century. It seems that amathematician andengineernamedHeroofAlexandria inventedamechanism thatdispensedafixedamountofholywaterwhenapatrondepositedacoin.

• IntheAfricannationofSomalia,amanispermittedtohaveasmanyasfourwives -- but only if he can support them all.

• Between 70 percent and 80 percent of the world’s fresh water is stored in glaciers,andallbut1percentoftheworld’sglaciersarefoundintheArcticorAntarctic.

• You’ve probably heard of solar-powered cars (even if they’re not in common use), but you may not realize that there have also been examples of solar-powered airplanes, motor scooters and boats.

• Those who study such things say that of the 785 million adults in the world who are unable to read, two-thirds are women.

***Thought for the Day: “Moderate giftedness has beenmade worthless by theprintingpressandradioandtelevisionandsatellitesandallthat.Amoderatelygiftedperson who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world’s champions.”

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their winter sports, and one of them is played with granite stones. The sport of curlingbecameanofficialwinter Olympic event starting with the 1998 Nagano Games. Players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. The stones used are discs made of polished granite and defined by the WorldCurling Federation as weighing between 38 and 44 pounds (17-20 kg), with a maximum circumference of 36 inches (910 mm) and a minimum height of 4.5 inches (110 mm). Since becoming an officialwinter Olympic sport, Canada has emerged as the Olympics’ dominant nation winning eight medals — three gold, three silver and two bronze.

• Franconia Notch State Park in the WhiteMountainsofNewHampshirehad one of the most famous granite natural landmarks in the world. The “Old Man of the Mountain,” also known as “the Profile,” wasan illusion formed by five graniteledges 1,200 feet (366 m) above ProfileLake.The illusiongave theappearance of an old man looking to the east when observed from a very small area. If you were in the wrong spot, he just looked like the side of a rocky mountain! Nature carved the profile thousands ofyears ago, and nature took it away on May 3, 2003, when it collapsed.

• The Old Man of the Mountain has been the state emblem for New Hampshire since 1945, is the graphic for the state’s highway route system and their license plates and is on the back of the state quarter minted in 2000. Because of its importance to the state, The Old Man of the Mountain Memorial is being constructed at the park, near where it existed for so many years. Five large standing stones will be aligned so that they will form the sameprofileforfuturegenerationsto enjoy.

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TOM DEMPSEYIn 1970, the New Orleans Saints professional football team only won two games, played in Tulane Stadium andwereoftencalledthe“Aints!”Onehighlight of those lean years was Tom Dempsey, a kicker who set the record for kicking the longest field goalin National Football League (NFL) history. • Thomas John Dempsey was

born on January 12, 1947, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He madethe basketball, football, baseball and wrestling teams at San Dieguito High School in Encinitas, California. He started kicking at Palomar College when the team needed a kicker, and he hit it out of the end zone twice in practice.

• Dempsey is known for his record-setting 63-yard (57.6-m) fieldgoal kicked in Tulane Stadium on November 8, 1970. The three-pointer on the game’s final playlifted the New Orleans Saints past the Detroit Lions for a 19-17 win.

• Dempsey stood out on the football field not just for his great kickingability but also his disability. He was born without a right hand and without toes on his right foot, which was his kicking foot. He wore a modifiedshoewithaflattenedandenlarged toe area; some said it looked like a hammer.

• Dempsey kicked using a straight approach as opposed to the soccer style angled approach used by most kickers today.

• AfterDempsey’sfamouskick, theNFL passed a rule requiring that all footgear be “normal” regardless of the kicker’s personal situation. This rule, passed in 1977, is known as the “Tom Dempsey” rule.

• Dempsey’s 63-yard field goalrecord has been equaled once but not beaten. Jason Elam of the Denver Broncos tied the record on October 25, 1998, in a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Dempsey congratulated Jason on his accomplishment.

• Dempsey understands that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Even though he is remembered for the Lions win, the same year that he kicked that 63 yarder, “I missed a 30-yarder!”

• Dempsey was very happy with his record kick but quick to point out that he didn’t do it alone.Ashe said, “Everything was perfect for me that day: I got a perfectsnap. I got a perfect hold, and I got a lot of protection. No one ever accomplishes anything alone in football.”

• Dempsey kicked for the New Orleans Saints from 1969-1970; the Philadelphia Eagles from 1971-1974; Los Angeles Rams from1975-1976; the Houston Oilers in 1977; and the Buffalo Bills in 1978.

• Retired from football now, Dempsey and his wife live in the New Orleans area. They were there when Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005 and much of his memorabilia was destroyed when their house was flooded. “The

hurricanefloodedmeoutofalotofmemorabilia,but itcan’tfloodoutthe memories,” he said.

• Dempsey loves to watch the New Orleans Saints play and is thrilled with their success in recent years. Most of the time, he watches alone from home and only his wife is therewithhim.Hesaysthatisfine,“provided she doesn’t talk!”

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WATCH YOUR STEP!Stairs can be a great way to get your exercise. If you are looking to increase the steps on your pedometer or just give the thighs and calves a workout, take the stairs!• One of the most famous staircases

in the world is at the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley of France. It is a double spiral staircase that surprisingly allows two people to climb without ever crossing paths, even though they can see each other. This Château was built as a hunting lodge for Francois I starting in 1518, using 1,800 workers and taking15yearstofinish.Thereare440roomsand365fireplaces!

• If you have ever been to Rome, you probably went to “The Spanish Steps,” built from 1723-1725. These 138 stone steps lead from the Piazza di Spagna to the hill of the Pincio and the church of Trinita dei Monti at the top. The funds for the Spanish steps came from the French, and keep in mind that Rome is in Italy! This staircase is the longest and widest in Europe and a great gathering place for tourists and locals.

• Probably the most photographed staircase in the world is also in Italy. The spiral staircase that leads from street level up to the Vatican Museums in Vatican City was

designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. This staircase consists of two intertwined spirals; one leading up and the other down.

• Some stairs that were an exit point for many slaves from Africa areon Goree Island off the coast of Senegal.Anestimated26,000ofthe12million slaves taken fromAfricaare believed to have passed through the island between 1670 and the late 1700s.

• Did you know that there is a festival for winding stairs? Traer, Iowa, is hometotheFamousWindingStairson Second Street and holds an annual festival the third weekend in August (August 12-13, 2011).The iron staircase was built in 1894 when E.E. Taylor built a new building for the town’s newspaper. Since the building and lot were narrow, he chose to have an outside staircase built to the newspaper offices onthesecondfloor.In1916,whenthetown voted to widen the sidewalks, the stairs were moved to the curb and a catwalk was added to connect them to the upstairs entrance. The staircase, catwalk and attached building are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

• In October 2010, Bellevue, Washington, was the site of aninaugural fundraising event, “The

FightforAirClimb,”fortheAmericanLung Association. Hailed as thelongest multi-building stair-climb event in the United States, it took place at Bellevue Towers, the city’s newest high-rise condominiums, which has two towers, each 45 stories tall. For the climb, the options were for climbing 45, 91 or 182 stories, which translated into 800, 1,621 or 3,242 stairs. Participants climbed up and were rushed down in express elevators.

• San Francisco has many stairs built intoitshillstoaidwalkers.InAugust2005, a special mosaic staircase was unveiledat16thAvenueandMoraga.The16thAvenueTiledStepsprojectwas a huge undertaking conceived and fabricatedbyceramicistAileenBarr and mosaic artist Colette Crutcher. Considered the world’s longest mosaic staircase, there are 163 steps made from over 2,000 handmade tiles plus many fragments of tile, mirror and stained glass. Look for these stairs to add to your photo album!

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1. Is the Book of Zion in the Old or New Testament or neither?2.FromActs10,whatRomansoldierwasled to Christ by Peter? Cornelius, Dan, Menahem, Felix 3.In1Kings6,whobuiltthefirsttemplein Jerusalem? Samuel, Joshua, Solomon, Aaron

4.WhendoestheChristianHolyDaybegin? Midnight, Sunrise, Noon, Sunset5.WhendoestheJewishHolyDaybegin? Midnight, Sunrise, Noon, Sunset6.WhendoestheHinduHolyDaybegin?Midnight, Sunrise, Noon, Sunset

ANSWERS:1)Neither;2)Cornelius;3)Solomon;4)Midnight;5) Sunset; 6) Sunrise

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