THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, May 17, 2012


who was the chief, and Curt Prime of Moultonborough, his assistant. The Great Wall has several discon- nected branches, and in the aggregate, extends over a mile. Its core structure is trapezoid shaped and en- closes almost twenty acres. During the period of 2004 to 2009, dense vegetation was cleared away and the Great Wall was repaired. Visitors now can easily walk around the Great Wall at their leisure. The statue sat upon


Great Wall, which Adams had constructed in 1875, where it stood until it fell and shattered during a 1941 storm. Moritz Geiss is believed to


have cast the statue of the Greek mythological figure Niobe circa 1860. Geiss was an early innovator in developing zinc statuary, which he popularized dur- ing the second half of the 19th century. Zinc statues were painted white to cre- ate the illusion that they were made of marble. This technique unquestionably created a lustrous effect. The plaster mold that


NIOBE from 1 Niobe, in pieces, waiting to be reconstructed.


which he would repay once he got a job in Boston. His neighbors refused this re- quest, telling him that he was of “no account” and they would never see him or their money again. Bristling at this rebuke,


Adams swore that he would work his way to Boston, become successful, and return to Sandwich rich enough to buy any land he wanted. Adams kept his vow. After inventing the steam powered press that revolutionized print- ing, he returned to Sand- wich a multimillionaire. He bought up many farms in the Sandwich Lower Corner neighborhood and proceeded to knock down all their buildings. Some of the feathered split granite that made up those build- ings’ foundations found their way into the Great Wall Adams constructed in 1874-1875 by approxi- mately eighty men working under the supervision of two master masons: Jacob Roberts of East Sandwich,


Geiss used to cast his stat- See NIOBE on 20


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