Geocaching At Munford Celebrate Event Cache

Geocaching in West Tennessee and all over the World is rapidly growing and becoming a favorite activity for families. It is with that in mind that I am planning this event on September 15th to help introduce Geocaching to new cachers and the public alike.Make your plans for Saturday, Sept. 15th and join the Celebration in Munford.

Each year in September, the city of Munford, TN has a celebration where the entire city center is blocked off and vendors are allowed to set up booths for a large variety of wares and services. The link to this "celebration" is still being updated for 2007. I have had several booths in the past for my business but this year I decided to bring my new passion for Geocaching to my community. I have obtained an information booth at which I will hand out pamphlets, flyers, and have a drawings for items donated by sponsors. There will be displays of cache containers and coins and travel bugs for cachers to discover and the public to view. Along with members of GOWT, Geocachers of West Tennessee, or any other cacher who would like to participate, we plan to show some videos and also demonstrate our “obsessions” via a couple of caches we will place for newcomers to find. We will provide “guides” for the public and show them our hobby. These temporary caches have been approved by the City Council and Mayor of Munford, Dwayne Cole, and will be what I think a way to pique public interest.

Munford Celebrate is a large crowd pleaser and draws literally thousands of families to Munford, TN for a day filled with games, displays, food, and music. I have attended since moving to Munford in 1986 and it is without a doubt a day of fun and as the name suggests, Celebration. I have spoken to cachers in 4 surrounding states and hope to have at least 100 or more cachers attend. The booth as I mentioned will be a focal point for the cachers to “login”, enjoy the festivities, and search for approximately 18 caches within a small radius of Munford. Maps and coords will be provided to anyone interested. It will also be a place for members of the “muggle community” to discover Geocaching and get hopefully become hooked on our hobby. I believe by giving the public some basic information about Geocaching, we can attract new members and further our sport.

For the past 21 years, Celebrate Munford has sponsored the Munford Arts & Crafts Fair in September. The fair is a day-long event that is held in the downtown area of Munford and features vending areas for local artists to sell and show off their works. It also features two entertainment stages, one featuring gospel music and the other with a multitude of talent in areas of music and dance. At the end of the day, it is a tradition for the Award Winning Munford High School cougar Band, The Pride, to march into the city center and give a small concert.

Prizes for drawings and give-aways and sponsorship acceptances are coming in daily. I will keep this site updated as new sponsors come on board. To date, the following companies have either made or pledged to sponsor the event with gifts and/or gift certificates. Crake Productions, Castle Pins and Coins, GCC, Otter Box, Worldcaching.com, Buji, and Groundspeak.