Interesting article in today's
www.bostonglobe.com, top of the front page titled: 'How do you sell a Granite State?' which is similar to comments in this thread plus 129 Boston Globe reader comments, and has NH's tourist promo people wondering where to go with this.
Didn't somebody already recommend rebuilding the Old Man on the cheap with a fiberglass look-a-like completely wired with sound and lights and hoisting it back a-high cannon cliff with a helicopter......how's about a pschydelic Old Man plus an Old Man gambling casino for Franconia Notch State park......oh yeah!!