This is another Women in History cache, part of a series started in NH by MAMD. This cache is for a famous Vermonter.
DO NOT GO to the given coordinates. They are fake. To find the real coords, read the essay and solve the easy quiz.
Jody Williams is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights (especially those of women), and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work toward the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
Born in Rutland Vermont in 1950, the self-described “quiet kid with a tendency to fear authority” grew up in Poultney and Brattleboro before going on to the University of Vermont. There she changed her major five times before graduating in 1972 to odd jobs ranging from waitress to oral surgery assistant, quitting the latter after fainting at the sight of blood. Williams recovered to earn master’s degrees from the School for International Training in Brattleboro and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before receiving an invitation from Bobby Muller, head of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, to create the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Williams recalls Oct. 10, 1997, when a reporter called her Putney Vermont home at 4 a.m. to say that she and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines — the nonprofit organization she helped launch — had won the world’s most prestigious humanitarian honor.
“By midmorning, the field in front of the house overlooking the beaver pond was studded with satellite feed trucks,” she writes in her 2013 memoir. “I’d never had such an experience with the media before in my life.”
Twenty years after she and her organization won the Nobel Peace Prize, Williams gave an interview to the VT Digger, from which much of the essay is derived. One of only 16 female winners in history, now chairs the Nobel Women’s Initiative, an alliance of eight laureates “united to promote peace, justice and equality.” No longer in Putney, the 66-year-old now splits her time between Westminster Vermont and a Washington, D.C., suburb when not traveling to every continent except Antarctica while commenting on social media.
“War is NOT heroic,” she recently opined in one tweet. “People can be heroic in war. But war sucks.”
Williams also posts on topics that include her home state’s climate change group 350.org (“So proud to be born and raised a Vermonter”), violence against women (“Basta ya con violencias contra las mujeres,” she recently posted in Spanish) and do-it-yourself ways to save the world (“Weeds in paths? Use vinegar, not Roundup”).
"Since this is the 20th anniversary of the mine ban treaty and the Nobel Peace Prize, I have to say that we are very proud of all of the progress that has been made in the world on land mines and removing them from the ground,” she told the BBC World Service. “But .... the work isn’t done yet.”
Since 2007, Williams has been the Sam and Cele Keeper Professor in Peace and Social Justice in the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston. Prior to that she had been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Justice at the College since 2003.
Sources, wikipedia and VT Digger, https://vtdigger.org/2017/10/09/two-decades-later-jody-williams-still-pushing-for-peace/
SOLVE FOR N 44 0A.BBC W 72 1D.EFG
A is the fourth digit in the year of she won the Nobel prize.
B. is the fourth digit in the year she graduated from UVM.
C is the age she was when interviewed by VT Digger, divided by eleven.
D Subtract the year she won the prize from the year she became the Keeper Professor at the University of Houston. Then subtract the number of decades the article was commemorating.
E is the square root of the total number of women Nobel Prize winners in 2017.
F is the third digit in the numerical part of the name of the Vermont climate change group mentioned in the article.
G Multiply E by B. The result is G.