"Three Graces" in NH?

[GNR]

I have a very old print with a view of what is described in the print as the Franconia Range, and it lists the Three Graces as near Cannon Mountain, but I can't find ANYTHING on the web about them? Anyone know what these mountains are now called or where they are? Thanks.

 

[sardog1]

Couldn't solve it but the term has lots of references from Homer forward, which you probably know already.

I would be shocked into stunned silence if Steve Smith at Mountain Wanderer bookstore couldn't help you.

 

[Waumbek]

I've heard the phrase used locally to refer to the three prominent Cannonballs
between Cannon and Kinsman but I don't know the origin.

 

[NH_Mtn_Hiker]

Here's an excerpt from a book titled Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian.
"The sun was up over Washington, Lafayette, and the trio of nearby cannonball-shaped mountains that were called the Three Graces,..."
excerpt

 

[Amicus]

The Charites

The three Graces - Charites in classical Greek - were Aglaea (Radiance), Euphrosyne (Joy) and Thalia (Flowering), according to Hesiod, the ancient shepherd-poet who has left their oldest surviving description. They were usually depicted as three naked women and did not have much of a mythology (stories just about them).

I hadn't heard the term applied the Whites but might have guessed the Carters, just from the name. Any three bare peaks in proximity might do, however.