Courtesy of the Pilgrim Hall Museum.

"This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union.  Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic."  Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

Happy Thanksgiving.