Elbert Hubbard Traditional Cache
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Easy find on the grounds of a local museum. Please don't look or act suspicious. Look like a garden appreciator!
Elbert Hubbard was a most interesting fellow about whom books have been written. You may wish to come for this cache when this museum is open--Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 from June to October--so you can get the full scoop.
To be brief, he came to East Aurora around 1895, began writing and developed here a full-blown Arts and Crafts community. Here young women and men left their farms and learned to become sophisticated craftsmen and women, creating elegant copperware, hand-illuminated books, oak furniture, leaded glass and much more.
This Craftsman Cottage belonged to George and Gladys ScheideMantel. He was a talented leatherworker for the Roycroft and she a tiny little character who lived to well over 100. She gifted her home to the Aurora Historical Society to be a museum, as long as her cat was cared for lovingly here. Sadly, both Gladys and her cat are now gone. But inside, you can see Gladys's wedding gown and many Roycroft treasures.
East Aurora luckily has treasured its past and developed this museum (thanks to the Aurora Historical Society for approving this cache placement), saved and refurbished the incomparable Roycroft Inn (you must have lunch there or at the very least, walk through) and now is developing the whole campus.
Elbert was a bit of a scoudrel and finally met his maker when the Lusitania sank.
These gorgeous gardens are maintained by the East Aurora Master Gardeners, so enjoy and do not trample in your search for your goal. It's intentionally easy to protect the gardens!
The significant sculpture is called "Magna Mater" by Katharine Maltwood. It's hard to read (and rather uncheery) so here is the text:
"Great travail is created for every man from the day he goes out of his mother's womb to the day that he returns to the mother of all things."
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