70's One-Hit Wonders: Geauga Illustrated Multi-Cache
70's One-Hit Wonders: Geauga Illustrated
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Welcome to downtown Middlefield!
The quaint little village of Middlefield sits within the Geauga
County township of the same name. It is the center of the fourth
largest Amish settlement in the world. Seeing these people dressed
in their plain clothes and riding in their horse-drawn buggies is
almost like traveling back in time when things were much simpler.
This cache will also take you back in time so that you can see
Middlefield as it was in its early days, when flying a kite or
riding a bike was so much more satisfying than spending half the
day playing video games. A trip down to the corner drugstore could
take up the entire day as you did some shopping, visited with
neighbors, got caught up on the local gossip, and savored a
delicious ice cream soda made fresh at the fountain.
At the posted coordinates you will find a beautiful mural on the
outside wall of the local tavern. The mural depicts the center of
Middlefield as it appeared around the years 1900 to 1910. Amazingly
this wonderful piece of art was created by a group of young
students who had just finished the eighth grade! It was the
brainchild of Brandon Templeton, who decided that this area could
use a little sprucing up after a building was ripped down to make
room for the right turn lane on Route 87.
Brandon designed the painting, and along with his fellow students, presented it to the
town council, and received approval to paint the wall. He was
joined by Jeremy Bratnick, Corey Wright, and Rachel DeMay, who did
the bulk of the painting, and Aneisa Poole, Colleen Bosler, Sara
Wolfert, and Melissa Berkebile, who assisted on the project. The
entire mural was completed during the summer of 2001 under the
supervision of the Cardinal Middle and High School art teacher,
Christie King. When it was finished, the wall was treated with a
special chemical coating to preserve it for many years to come.
UPDATE: After 22 years, the painting was finally showing major effects of time and weather, so a local artist was hired to reproduce the original mural at the same location. Bill Mast worked on the mural throughout the summer and the re-created painting was unveiled on October 17, 2023. This update should make the details much easier to spot, but the artist also made a few minor changes that caused the puzzle to require a couple of small adjustments.
In order to find this cache, you will need to look closely at this
painting and pick out the details listed below.
The final cache coordinates are: N 41° 27.PQR W 081°
05.STU
The cache is a short drive away. The trip from this spot to the
final location will bring you back to the present, and show you how
Middlefield has grown and progressed in the last 100 years. I'm not
sure if I would consider a string of fast food restaurants and a
Wal*Mart to be progress though.
P = the number of horses plus the number of dogs that are
seen in the picture – 2
Q = the third digit in the number on the front of the
train
R = the number of men in the picture who have obvious
beards – 1
S = the number of picnickers sitting on the blanket plus the
number of people riding a bike
T = the number of people holding on to a kite plus the
number of people fishing in the creek
U = the sum of the two digits in the number on the trolley
car (interurban railroad)
This cache is one of six in a series that you will need to find to
determine the final coordinates of "70's One-Hit Wonders: Have a
Nice Day!" Each of these six caches contains a set of lyrics
from a song that was made popular by a one-hit wonder group or solo
artist in the 1970's. All of the lyric clues can be found in the
log sheets. Using this small section of the song, you must
determine the song title and ultimately the year that the song
reached its highest position on Billboard magazine's Top 40
list. The last digit of that year will be the number you seek to
gain the final cache's coordinates.
Although some of the songs may have been remade by contemporary
artists, each song was originally made popular in the 1970's, and
the year of its popularity is what you must find. Please do not
give away any of the lyrics, song titles, or years in your logs or
they may be deleted! However, if you had a favorite song by a
one-hit wonder of the 1970's, or just a favorite 1970's song in
general, please feel free to mention it in your find log.
All of these caches were placed in October of 2006, to commemorate
the year of Geauga County's bicentennial. I hope you enjoy your
caching journey through the beautiful and historic Geauga County.
Watch for the special bicentennial banners as you make your way
between cache locations. If you find all of the caches in the
series, including the final, you will have visited at least six of
the sixteen townships in Geauga County, including a trip through
Middlefield Village.
A = 70's One-Hit Wonders: Geauga Iliad
B = 70's One-Hit Wonders: Geauga "Odyssay"
C = 70's One-Hit Wonders: Geauga Overlook
D = 70's One-Hit Wonders: Mineral-Rich
Geauga
E = 70's One-Hit Wonders: Geauga Illustrated
F = 70's One-Hit Wonders: Geauga
"Jollifications"
Final - 70's One-Hit Wonders: Have a Nice Day!
Note that some of the hints for these caches are actually song
titles from 70's one-hit wonders, along with their year of
popularity. These hints will not help you solve the lyrics
or the puzzle to determine the final cache location, but hopefully
they will help you find the cache at hand if you're having
difficulty.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Zntarg naq Fgrry (1978)