To the editor:
I loved the article that Eric Aldrich wrote about glacial erratics: A rock like no other. Especially some of the noted places and favorite names of these enormous specimens of a time and event that happened 14,000 years ago.
When I started to look for a home in the area, I was drawn to a little log home on the knoll of a hill where glacial erratics are prominent in the neighborhood.
The previous owners told me that I’d first meet “Big Bertha” on my way up the hill. I later named one boulder “On top of old Smokey,” a rather sizeable rock where friendly foxes liked to sun themselves in the afternoon breeze.
Generally I refer to these large beasts as “Sleepy Old Men,” because the many cracks and lines in these rocks create faces and sidelong glances at birds, bees and other buzzing wild life.
I love them all and hope that folks who take the time to visit the Monadnock region, stop to smell the roses and gaze at these magnificent relics of the ice age.
Jane Kronheim
Harrisville