about the rotating stone

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The round, Barre gray, granite bench resembles a millstone, as grist mills were common along the Winooski and North Branch Rivers in the 1800’s. Visitors sitting on the rotating bench are invited to turn the stone counter-clockwise. Each time it completes one full rotation - the bronze marker passing North - the adjacent split-flap sign is triggered and flutters to the next graphic. In this way, the two components of the sculpture are invisibly linked, the stone activating the sign.