2012 Comments By Author Bill Sweet Concerning His Interview With The Grounds Keeper At Bow, New Hampshire

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What is the difference
between that destructive event and the Muslim Taliban
destroying religious temples and statues? No difference
in my opinion.

I called the grounds keeper about it. I thought I would go
to the source as best as possible. I don't have his name,
but perhaps he is still around.

I knew the Board member, Clayton Bion Craig, made it his pet
project to get rid of the monument. It was something he wanted
to do when he got on the Board. From what Ms. Gwalter did,
apparently the whole Board didn't know about it. Why was
Ms. Gwalter left out of the loop until it was too late?

In Mr. Craig's mind which very well could have been on
other minds was the potential for worship of Mrs. Eddy's
birth place. The stone itself was tied to mysticism as it
appears it was by being a specially mathematically designed
pyramid and this was part of the reason to get rid of it,
too. That is just beliefs which any metaphysician can dismiss.
So why throw out the baby with the bath water?

About the grounds keeper. The Board set up a special opps
operation in the middle of the night I was told
by the grounds keeper. He, the grounds keeper, had no
warning. He was presented with papers that allowed the
demolition crew into the area.
The grounds keeper made numerous phone calls to no avail
at that late hour. He just cried and cried. It was the worst
feeling he had in his life to watch the crew wrap dynamite
around the pyramid marker in the dead of night.

He said to me that what people don't know is that a crew
returned in the daytime. The crew cut down and destroyed
innumerable beautiful trees that lined the road to the
marker. More tears. He felt, as I and many of you do, that
it amounts to destroying the human history of Christian
Science's Founder.

Now there is an tiny little marker in the place where the
pyramid marker was placed, and it is almost not noticeable.

Also, according to the grounds keeper, the entire area
looks flat and uninteresting. No one driving by would know
that something of historical importance happened on such a
bland piece of land.