Take a tour and discover some local town culture. The coordinates above are in town but are not the cache site. You will need to gather information that will be used to provide the location of the cache.
I’m heading from my home in Bedford to go visit some kin in New Boston. Up New Boston road through the swamps of Bedford, I cross the town line and take a right on Bedford Road. This corner (Location 1) is known by the locals as ???????? corner. Clifford Dawson came back from gold huntin' in Alaska and set up his homestead on this spot. The first two letters of the name the locals call this corner will represent numbers one and two in the formula.
Continuin' up Bedford Road I turn left and pahk on McCurdy road to check out Sunday Driver Rock (Location 2). It is not safe to park on Bedford Road so play it safe while you check out the warning originally penned by Clarence Chancey eighty years ago. He didn’t much like them motorcars with all their dust and arooga horns blastin. The sixth word on Sunday Driver Rock will give you numbers 3, 4, 5, and 6.
When I got into the village I stopped by the Village Green (Location 3) and read about how General Stark was so pleased with the New Boston Militia at battle of Bennington in 1777 that he let them keep the cannon that they captured. The first letter of the name of the cannon will be used to represent the number of cannons that you see on the green. For a while the cannon had been stolen by the Weare Militia who claimed that they had fought as bravely and deserved to keep it in their town but now it is back in New Boston.
I stopped in at Dodge’s and ran into Gerard and Madeleine. She was naggin him about fixin the leaky roof. He said, “Too dangerous to go up there in the rain when the roof is slick, and when it ain't rainin', the roof don’t leak.” Quickly changing the subject he started reminiscing about how much things had changed in this village over the years. What once was Joe English Grange is now the Town Hall. The post office used to be here at Dodge’s too where they used to say, “If you can’t get it here, you don’t need it”. That back wall which once held the town library is now a beer cooler and the ??????? Free Library (Location 4) has been moved to the Wason Memorial Building. The first three letters of the name of the library will be used as 7, 8, and 9. If you flirt with the pretty cashier at Dodge's she may tell you where to go to find the new Library or she may just tell you where to go. (Note: A few years after the cache was published, the library moved again, to an entirely new location in 2010!)
The cache is at: North TL OH.TOP West WK TK.HIK
Now off you go to Old Coach Road to GET ‘ER DONE. You’ll find the trailhead a short way up on your left. Look for the old sign that reads Woodland Associates Forest.
Enjoy a pleasant half mile loop walk along old logging roads through this beautiful forest.
DAYLIGHT HUNTIN' ONLY PLEASE. The local Constabulary don’t like seeing cars parked at the trailhead at night.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Above is the original cache description; below is newer supplemental information:
Thanks are due to "Grampa Cardigan" as the original hider of this cache.
The solid-rock-seekers (who found the cache back on 17 June 2007) adopted the cache in 2022 to maintain it for future generations of cachers to enjoy. The description was updated to accommodate changes in New Boston over the intervening 15 years and waypoints were added to the cache page to help find the locations to gather the needed information.