JA cache #2 Northanger Abbey Traditional Cache

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TEAM FETCHERS: Time to take this cache down. It ran for almost 1 1/2 years with 74 finds.
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Hidden : 12/1/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Located on the beautiful grounds of the Inn at St. John's.

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey This is my second of six Jane Austen caches. Jane Austen wrote Northanger Abbey as a sort of parody of the Gothic novels that were so popular at the time. Novels were considered ‘girly’ things. Gothic novels were thought to be particularly horrid and the cause of unseemly behavior. The book’s tone is very different from Austen’s other novels….it was written (chronologically) first (though published after her death) and has the light tone of a novel written by a young woman. Catherine Morland is a simple Parson’s daughter and when she accompanies her neighbor to fashionable Bath she meets people whose society she’d never normally have known. Friendships are formed and Cathy’s new friend Isabelle introduces naïve Miss Morland to Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho. Later, Miss Morland travels with her friends the Tilney’s to their home Northanger Abbey. In Catherine’s mind nothing could be more fantastic than the possibilities of spending the night in a real abbey! However, Catherine does has some suspicions of her own… The book is very good and the recent BBC/PBS DVD is good as well. ******************************************************************************* Henry Tilney is driving Miss Morland to Northanger Abbey in his curricle and their conversation is the basis for this cache. Excerpt from Chapter 20 ****He smiled, and said, “You have formed a very favorable idea of the abbey.” “To be sure, I have. Is it not a fine old place, just like what one reads about?” “And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as ‘what one reads about’ may produce? Have you a stout heart? Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?” “Oh! yes- I do not think I should be easily frightened, because there would be so many people in the house- and besides, it has never been uninhabited and left deserted for years, and then the family came back to it unawares, without giving any notice, as generally happens.” **** Mr. Tilney goes on to further describe what the abbey may be like until Catherine can stand it no longer and was too much amused by the interest he had raised to carry on any further. ************************************************************************************ The Inn at St. John’s is the former St. John’s Provincial Seminary. It opened in the late 40’s and the current chapel was dedicated in 1955. The seminary continued to serve the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit until 1988 when it closed. ************************************************************************************
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jngpu bhg sbe ebivat frphevgl va tbys pnegf!

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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