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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.
Trivia
In Meredith's book "And There I Stood With My Piccolo", he spoke of "The Spirit of '76". Perhaps this was the origin of the number of trombones in the famous song. The painting of "The Spirit of '76" includes a fife player.
A fife is essentially a piccolo which was Meredith's main instrument. In the early 1950's, Meredith did an orchestration of Frank Loesser's "Ballad of Rodger Young"