VPR - Jill Mudgett: Vt.'s stone face similar to NH's Old Man of the Mountain, but less intellectual
Click to view item Posted September 25. 2013 11:32AM
Drawing on the popular nineteenth-century belief that facial proportions were a reliable indicator of intelligence, Vermonters like one Stowe resident concluded that since the chin was significantly more prominent than the forehead, Mansfield’s profile was "not very intellectual.”
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