"Breaking" boulder news from New Hampshire

Yesterday, a 2016 Papergreat post titled "Old postcard: 'The Mysterious Hanging Boulder' in Polar Caves" suddenly zoomed toward the top of the most-read posts.

Alas, that's because, as of yesterday, the hanging boulder is no longer hanging.

An Instagram video by Wildfernandfield first detailed the 80-ton boulder's new position, attained due to the inevitability of time and gravity. It appears that, most fortunately, no one was hurt. That Instagram video (and a subsequent Reddit thread) led a bundle of folks who wanted to see what the boulder looked like before it fell to Papergreat.

Wildfernandfield added in a comment: "We reported it, we were the first customers through the park at opening. In their morning inspection the rock was not like that."

The park is the privately owned Polar Caves Park in Rumney, New Hampshire. 

One commenter on Reddit wrote: "The rock is so obscure. Like there is no entries on Google about this rock besides this Papergreat site and other pages. I swear, most of us is going to learn about this rock only because of this video haha."

And one Papergreat commenter wrote: "Sad I won’t ever get to see it in person."

Well, I'm fairly certain you'll still be able to see it someday, after the park safely reopens (probably in the spring). It'll just be aligned much differently. That boulder isn't getting up and going anywhere. And we still have the old postcards.

Tucson: 2 Little Free Libraries and an air traffic control tower

We visited and added books to two more Little Free Libraries in the Tucson area today, after having also done so last month. The first is shown above and was at a business. The second one was a residential Little Free Library and is shown in the four pictures below. This is the background on its beautiful craftsmanship, per the Little Free Library app: "This library was built by my father, Angelo, in his 89th and 90th year of life. He put his whole heart and effort into it to make sure it was sturdy and would last and be enjoyed for a lifetime! My niece, Jenna, wrote sayings from many different books on the outside of the library. Our wonderful neighbors and friends helped erect the library when it was completed."

You can see Angelo's name in a little plaque on the back. His work, and the work of everyone else who helped to make this library a reality will absolutely stand for years and be a monument to them. We added some very nice books to the already robust collection. 

Finally, here's my shot of Tucson International Airport's old air traffic control tower from this morning. It opened in 1958, was "retired" in 2016 and is now being used for administrative offices. It's not far from another interesting aviation attraction in Tucson: the Boneyard, officially known as the U.S. Air Force's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group. That's not to be the confused with the Pinal County Air Park, which is a boneyard for commerical aviation north of Tucson.