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FP Series #152 - George Kennedy Traditional Cache

Hidden : 3/2/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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One Hundred FiftySecond in the Famous People (FP) Series - George Kennedy
George Harris Kennedy, Jr.
(born February 18, 1925) is an Academy-Award winning American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as Dragline in Cool Hand Luke and Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970's.

He made his stage debut at the age of two, later becoming a radio performer. Kennedy put aside show business during World War II and spent sixteen years in the United States Army, seeing combat and working in the Armed Forces radio. he was involved with the opening of the first Army Information Office, which provided technical assistance to films and TV shows. He became a technical advisor for the television series Sergeant Bilko, where his acting career began with a few one-line parts.

Kennedy began his film career in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. He then appeared in several successful films, including 1963's Charade opposite Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, and James Coburn, 1964's Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, opposite Bette Davis, and 1965's In Harm's Way, opposite John Wayne.

He also made numerous television appearances, on The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, Bonanza, McHale's Navy, and Gunsmoke. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Cool Hand Luke (1967). He followed with films such as The Dirty Dozen,Bandolero! and The Boston Strangler.

In 1970 he appeared in the Academy-Award-winning film Airport, in which he played one of the film's lead characters, Joe Patroni. He reprised this role four years later in Airport 1975 and again in two further sequels. In 1984, he starred opposite Bo Derek in the Hollywood disaster Bolero. Kennedy also appeared in the television series The Love Boat in 1984, playing the character Erik Larsen. He then appeared in several less successful films including Savage Dawn, The Delta Force, and Creepshow 2 before appearing in the comedy hit The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! in 1988, playing Captain Ed Hocken.

Finding George isn't quite like Where's George. In fact, to find this little out of the way location, you may have to do some walking. Even the old geoJeep balked at driving all the way in. Once we got out to walk, we were greeted by the neighborly 4 legged friends who stayed with us during most of our visit. The cache is a decon container, hidden in typical fashion. But the allure of this location is the size of it all. Seems to go on forever, although every inch has been neglected for quite some time. So expect thorns, expect wildlife, expect some PI here and there, expect that rabbit that scared the living daylights out of me. Expect to want to stay and explore this remarkable, forgotten location. There is a nice link HERE that has directions and some pictures, as well as a partial listing of the interred. Closest I can get you to the location is the wooden marker for Unknown#12. Kind of sad, isn't it? You'll find the cache well above ground level and just try to replace it so that it can't be too easily seen. From the looks of things, we suspect this may be a *hangout* of sorts for some of the local youth...or other kinds of *players*.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

abg ba gur tebhaq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)