Chinese Year of the "Wilbur" Pig Traditional Cache
The Seegert Seekers: Sorry folks...had to archive the piggy series a day early so we could submit the Rat series of FTF's for this year's event.
Thanks for all the support and come on down to the event tomorrow for the morning and afternoon FTF raffles - there will be 19 new caches this year.
Chinese Year of the "Wilbur" Pig
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To make way for the
Rat series
this cache will be archived 7-13-08
2007 is the Chinese Year of the Pig. This cache is part of a new
series that we put out for our event, and is a tribute to Wilbur
from Charlotte's Web. FTF was raffled off at our event held on
7-14-07.
In Charlotte's Web, a spider saves a pig from slaughter. In real
life, the author had tried to save a pig—and failed. A few years
before Charlotte's Web, White wrote an essay about caring for a
dying pig at his farm. Even though White had raised the pig to make
bacon, at the end he found himself desperately trying to save the
pig's life, "cast suddenly in the role of pig's friend and
physician." Although farm pigs are, in a sense, born to die—being
destined for the butcher—White had always had mixed feelings about
this fact of farm life. "One day when I was on my way to feed the
pig, I began to feel sorry for the pig because, like most pigs, he
was doomed," he recalled. "This made me sad. So I started thinking
of ways to save a pig's life." Soon the story of Wilbur was
born.
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