CONWAY — So, how’s your “Old Man” this Father’s Day Weekend?
Having visited the Museum of the White Mountains exhibit last Saturday, “Enduring Presence: The Old Man of the Mountain,” which is the subject of this weekend’s cover story, I’ve had the Old Man — and the old man, as in my late dad and everyone’s fathers — on my mind as we celebrate Father’s Day this Sunday.
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