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need better title/s wet your whistle at this hard rock memorial  hard rock memorial to wet your whistle  Recently a patron asked about this somewhat mysterious and enigmatic piece of public sculpture in the Rotary Park at the corner of Route 16/302 and Depot Road in North Conway.  For me, this object can serve as a story gateway that leads from this monument, to a man, to a house, to maps, to lasers and finally to the mountain summits at the edge of the horizon for some of the most famous views in White Mountain Art.  For the younger crowd, the site serves as a Poke gym through the Pokemon Go mobile game (My son knew all about that subject, I on the other hand was clueless about that). See an article about that from the Conway Daily Sun  here .  I knew just by glancing at it that for past generations, it served a more practical function as part of the necessary infrastructure during the horse and buggy days.  It is a watering trough, a once critical re...