Today I was looking at the website of the Litchfield, Maine Historical Society and discovered that one of the town’s claims to fame is ‘sodalite,’ a rare dark blue mineral found in very few other places in the world. There is a photograph of a specimen from Litchfield and the historical society comments that it is “displayed not far from the Hope diamond” at the Smithsonian in Washington.
I wonder if the historical society of Golconda, India [if there is one] reports that the Hope diamond is displayed not far from a sample of sodalite from Litchfield, Maine.
