A Disappointing Act

For hundreds of years, a very large, flat piece of field stone has served the Joseph Maynard House – set at the foot of the house’s original front door and used as a step. We loved this stone immediately and couldn’t wait to put it back to use. But, while work on the house’s foundation is taking place, we needed to move the stone several feet away from the structure -- towards the road. There it's rested for three months.

This week, it was stolen.

We know that the upsetting act had to have been carried in the last two days – as the stone was there earlier this week.

The kicker is … in place of our perfect stone, was left a much smaller piece of stone. (See photo to right. You can see the dead grass, marking where our stone laid … and now in its place, the smaller stone that was left for us to discover)

We not only feel violated that someone trespassed on our land and robbed us of a piece of our property … but we are also saddened that we will never be able to return the stone to it’s historic resting spot at the front door of the Joseph Maynard House.

Why would someone do this? And why would they leave the dwarf stone to mock us? Do they think it’s funny? We’re not laughing.