FtV - The Mysterious Travels of Rollstone Boulder
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 138 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search downtown Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for Rollstone Boulder; a 110-ton rock moved into a traffic island back in the late 1920s. This boulder was once perched on top of a hill overlooking town, but when stone quarries moved in, local and state politicians made a legendary effort to save this local landmark. But now that it's been in the center of town for almost a century… no one cares. This episode first aired January 20, 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, legendary listeners. |
| 0:01.6 | Thanks for tuning in to From the Vault, a second look at some of our classic episodes. |
| 0:06.1 | Look for a new episode every week. |
| 0:07.8 | Now, can you go back and listen on your own at our New Englandledges.com? |
| 0:11.6 | You bet. |
| 0:12.2 | But you won't get the added bonus of an after-the-legion segment featuring new commentary about that episode from your old pals Jeff and Ray. |
| 0:20.4 | So let's open up the New England |
| 0:22.0 | Legends Vault and revisit another legendary episode. Hey kids, welcome to the Vault. We are back |
| 0:29.5 | in the Vault. This is one of my favorite episodes because it just is. I love, and this is not a very |
| 0:36.2 | descriptive word, I love when a thing becomes a bigger thing. |
| 0:39.5 | Love it. |
| 0:40.9 | This is the mysterious travels of Rollstone Boulder. First aired January 20th, 2022. Enjoy. |
| 0:49.4 | So we'll follow Boulder Drive here until the end where it turns into Main Street. All right, got it. |
| 0:55.7 | Now, what are we looking for in downtown Fitchburg Mass, Jeff? Today we're on the hunt for one |
| 1:00.0 | odd roadside oddity. I guess the landmark itself isn't so odd, but I mean, dear Lord, the |
| 1:05.7 | backstory is. Okay. Okay, make a left onto Main Street. All right. |
| 1:17.0 | And there's Rollstone Street on our left, so our destination is just about two blocks ahead at the intersection. |
| 1:20.7 | We can pull over really anywhere here and walk the rest of the way. We're heading out to that small traffic island at the intersection of Main Street in Route 31. |
| 1:32.7 | Okay, I see a big round rock that looks like it's cracked all over. |
| 1:37.0 | It almost looks like the head of the thing, you know, from the Marvel movies. |
| 1:40.4 | Yeah, right, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:41.3 | The rock is about as tall as I am. |
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