There are a bunch of crackpots out there, but this one is an interesting tale of a local famous businessman and his war against Gravity.
Lately I've been admiring the interesting rock carving/paintings in Gloucester's Dogtown & remembered hearing about another facet of local born Roger Babson's obsessions....Gravity! More accurately the fight against it.
Despite his status as an extraordinarily successful businessman and Mr. American everyman, Babson was also—there's no other word for it—a crackpot. Throughout his life, he had major beef with, of all things, the force of gravity. In a 1948 essay entitled “Gravity – Our Enemy Number One,” he explained that the grudge traced back to his childhood, when his sister drowned in a swimming accident. “Yes, they say she was "drowned", but the fact is that ... she was unable to fight Gravity which came up and seized her like a dragon and brought her to the bottom. There she smothered and died from lack of oxygen.”
At GZ you will come across one of the remaining "Anti-Gravity Stones" monuments.
42 35.ABC W 070 49.DEF
A= number of letters in third word
B= number of letters in first name of founder
C= number of letters of first word in third line
D= number of letters on back of monument
E= number of letters in last word of 5th line
F= number of letters in third word of 6th line