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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 seen granite 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. • Stone Mountain Park contains the largest mass of exposed granite on earth. A carving on one side of the large granite 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.) • The Confederate figures measure 90 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 started the project, but his work was later totally blasted from the mountain. He went on to his most famous work of art, Mount Rushmore. turn the page for more!

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Did you know that exercise and fitness improve your overall day to day wellness? They provide lots of great benefits you can’t gain 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 give the obvious benefits of general health, 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 personal trainer if you want to be held accountable. For one-onone fitness coaching, contact Dave Elder, CFT, at Infinite Fitness, 260-602-6708. For more health and wellness tips, go to www.facebook.com/ slimdownforlife and click “like”. Kim Hiatt, CNHP Slim Down For Life

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• 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 finished were: George Washington, 1934; Thomas Jefferson, 1936; Abraham Lincoln, 1937; and Theodore Roosevelt, 1939. The area receives about three million visitors per year. • One of the earliest railroads in America was constructed specifically to haul granite. Located near present-day Quincy, Massachusetts, the 12mile 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 noteworthy structures 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 North Carolina 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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• Mount Airy is also known for being the home of Andy Griffith. His television show about life in the fictional town of Mayberry is celebrated each September with “Mayberry Days.” Also, the 50th Anniversary of the “Andy Griffith Show” was held at the Andy Griffith Museum 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 the Washington Monument, Library of Congress and more government buildings in Washington, D. C. The Granite National Historic district includes about 62 properties all from the late 19th century. • The “Granite Center of the World,” 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 late 1700s. According to geological estimates, the quarries in Barre have a supply that should last about 4,500 years. The city is home to the Vermont Granite Museum & Stone Arts School. • Across the Canadian border from Vermont 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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• Canadians are known for loving their winter sports, and one of them is played with granite stones. The sport of curling became an official winter 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 World Curling 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 official winter 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 White Mountains of New Hampshire had one of the most famous granite natural landmarks in the world. The “Old Man of the Mountain,” also known as “the Profile,” was an illusion formed by five granite ledges 1,200 feet (366 m) above Profile Lake. The illusion gave the appearance 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 of years 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 inRUN 2000. Because of its WANT TO YOUR OWN BUSINESS? importance to the state, Publish a Paper in YourThe Area Old If You Can Provide: Sales Experience · A Computer · Man the Mountain Memorial is Desktop of Publishing Software · A Reasonable Financial Investment We provide the opportunity for success! being constructed at the park, near 1.800.523.3096 whereCall itwww.tidbitsweekly.com existed for so many years. Five large standing stones will be aligned so that they will form the same profile for future generations to enjoy. Information in the Tidbits® Paper is gathered from sources considered to be reliable but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed.

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TOM DEMPSEY In 1970, the New Orleans Saints professional football team only won two games, played in Tulane Stadium and were often called the “Aints!” One highlight of those lean years was Tom Dempsey, a kicker who set the record for kicking the longest field goal in National Football League (NFL) history. • Thomas John Dempsey was born on January 12, 1947, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He made the 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 recordsetting 63-yard (57.6-m) field goal kicked in Tulane Stadium on November 8, 1970. The threepointer on the game’s final play lifted 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 kicking ability 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 modified shoe with a flattened and enlarged 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.

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