Many Happy Hours Traditional Cache
Cricket5_24: This property has new owners.
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This cache is part of the Kilmer series, which celebrates trees.
Trees in the landscape bring me joy. I love trees. My dad loved trees, and he loved Joyce Kilmer’s (1886–1918) poem "Trees."
So, in celebration of trees and in honor of my dad, I’m developing caches to be known as the Kilmer series.
The caches will be both in town and in the country, easily accessible or requiring a short walk.
A cache may be tucked into the roots of a great tree or a cavity, perhaps – if it’s big enough and low enough (I’m short).
Another cache may be resting amongst the limbs of an evergreen.
Perhaps a cache will be hidden yards from a tree, but within sight of a majestic or historical one.
And sometimes, many trees may be featured as caches are hidden on trails with arcing branches forming a canopy overhead.
Post photos if you like. Since I’m hiding the earliest ones in February, any pictures made now will be not as beautiful as trees can be in the other seasons.
Happy hunting!
The location for this cache is a place where I "lived" as a youngster. It is the former library - site of many happy hours and even an early job.
The location is historical, not just as a Carnegie Library, but for what it meant for the people of the community when travel was more difficult. Downstairs, in the back was a ladies lounge, complete with comfortable chairs and a bathroom. In the lounge farmers' wives who had completed their shopping could rest and wait for their husbands to conclude their business and be ready to go back out to the farms. When I was a very young child, my mother would take us children there. It was always wonderfully cool, no matter how hot the day was outside.
Then, when I discovered reading, I devoured everything I could find downstairs in the children's section, and then upstairs in the grown-up books.
This is on private property, but we have permission so long as we're careful with the grounds.
You can stay on pavement for the search, but will have to leave the pavement to actually retrieve the cache container. Someone has also placed a letterbox here, so be sure to get the correct one when you're signing.
Why not pause for a while and take in the trees featured with this cache -- the old, old dogwoods on the front lawn or the larger, magnificant maple tree on the lawn of The Greeneville Sun.
And, don't forget to sniff the boxwoods. They're everywhere and smell great after a rain.
6/1/2010 The container is a small, round plastic container, cammoed painted to blend with the surroundings. Large enough for a few small trade items.
Additional Hints
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