Carl 'Great' Barrington Memorial in North Canaan, Connecticut

Carl 'Great' Barrington Memorial in North Canaan, Connecticut

In rural northwest Connecticut within the quiet village of East Canaan, is a small rock on the side of Lower Road. Most people probably won’t even notice it’s there but if you know what to look for and take a moment to see, there’s a small plaque on the rock which describes a truly out of the world story.  Allegedly in 1739, a local man named Carl “Great” Barrington was killed when a meteor roughly the size of a Kia Sorento SUV hit him leaving b…