Cache Is Not At The Posted Coordinates
Mr. Toot is the mascot not only of the North Iowa Band Festival, but also for Mason City as a whole. His image has appeared on everything from T-Shirts to business cards to city light poles. Now his image also appears on the geocaching map just south of Mason City Iowa. Each of these puzzles will include a fact or story in theme with the art series. Some may also include a question or two for you to answer correctly to find the coordinates.
Mason City
Meredith Willson was not the only noteworthy person to have connections to Mason City. Below is a list of notable people, some we may go into greater detail on another cache page.
Bil Baird, Puppeteer
Tanna Frederick, actress and ocean fish conservationist
Carrie Chapman Catt, woman's suffrage
Walter Burley Griffin, architect
Jodi Huisentruit, anchorwoman and missing person
Jack Jenney, jazz musician
Richard Kirkham, philosopher
Tim Lannon (born 1951), Creighton University President
Tim Laudner, Major League Baseball catcher
Joe Lillard, NFL running back
Hanford MacNider (1889-1968) Ambassador to Canada, Brigadier-General in the US Army
James J Montague (1873-1941), journalist and poet
Jack Rule, Jr., professional golfer
Scott Sandage (born 1964), historian and author
Frank Secory, MLB left fielder and umpire
Ralph Senensky, television director and writer
and of course, Meredith Willson, composer and playwright.
Timothy Jon Laudner was born June 7, 1958, in Mason City, Iowa. His parents, Marvin (Pete) and Eileen, were both from northern Iowa, and the Laudners lived in Rockford, Iowa, for the first seven years of Tim’s life. In 1965, the family, which included two other children, Randy and Joan, moved to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. Laudner said the move was for reasons of work opportunities for Eileen, who became an administrator for a pediatrician, and Pete, who was a maintenance electrician at the FMC Corporation plant, a large defense contractor and manufacturer of ordnance.