Meet and Greet fellow cachers at the River Bend Farm Visitor
Center at the Blackstone River & Canal Heritage State Park, 287
Oak Street, Uxbridge, MA. Following the picnic, the Blackstone
River and Canal HSP will be hosting an outdoor SHAKESPEARE IN
THE PARK performance of Richard III from 3:00pm. Everyone is
welcome and encouraged to stay and enjoy the play. Be sure to bring
your lawn chairs.
Click the link for Mood Music:Blackstone
Valley by PLAINFOLK New England's Premiere Folk
Band
PLANNED EVENTS DURING THE
AFTERNOON:
- BARBEQUE/PICNIC - Gather at the
picnic area around Noon
- TRAVEL BUG Trading Table - See
details below
- EXPERIENCE the BLACKSTONE RIVER and
CANAL - Come Early and bring your Canoe/Kayak
- Cache-IN-Trash-OUT - DCR
appreciate our cleanup efforts (bags available)
- FAMILY FUN COMPETITION - To be
announced
- The BARD - Can you find
Shakespeare in the Park?
- SNEG EVENT BUTTONS are courtesy of Henry
& Elly aka HenryDurand.
They have offered to make personalized copies for each member of
teams that have posted their attendance by 7/28; let them know if
you will be reaching a Milestone at the event; you may revise your
'will attend' log to list individual names or send that info by
email to them through their
profile .
The focus of the event is not on finding caches while at the
picnic, but rather getting acquainted with others, who share a
common interest in the sport. NAMETAGS will be available, if you
don't bring your own homemade ones, so that other folks can
approach you and strike up a conversation.
Bring your own picnic sandwiches or barbeque meat (at least one
charcoal grill will be HOT) If you can bring something to share,
please include that in your "WILL ATTEND" log.
Directions for those that want them:
From MassPike, use exit 10A for route 146 South, take Route
16 East to Uxbridge Center, turn left on Route 122 North, in 1-1/2
mile turn right at next traffic light onto Hartford Avenue, then in
one mile turn right on Oak Street. Visitor Center is large red
barn.
From Rhode Island, take Route 146 North to third exit in
Mass, Route 16 and follow as above (there are visitor center signs
at each turn).
From I-495, use exits #19 (rt 109) or #20 (rt 85) westbound
to Route 16 and turn west. Drive through Milford into Mendon and
look for Hartford Avenue to turn right, then in four miles turn
left onto Oak Street.
Please use the large field for parking to leave spaces at the
VISITOR CENTER for the GENERAL PUBLIC
TRAVEL BUGS An exchange table will be available. To
facilitate smooth transfer, please consider posting a note in
advance to drop the TBs you will be bringing. Please take no more
than one for each one you bring. If you have an extra one to drop,
that will allow a newcomer to grab one if they can help it along.
Please sign them in and out on sheet of paper that we use for
answering any questions that arise during the weeks to follow. Log
them out on website as soon as you can, but do allow some time if
they were not dropped early.
RAIN or
SHINE
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This is our forth annual summer time picnic special event which
has typically been held on the last Sunday in July. Check out last
few years festivities:
Summer 2006
Summer 2005
Summer 2004
Link to information on the host facilities:
Blackstone River and Canal HSP Website