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Folkies: Bill Staines Traditional Cache

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cwgray: Just what I was afraid of. Irene got it. The area near GZ is now an excavation site.

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Hidden : 4/17/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is one of my "folkies" series, intended to honor a few of our folk music entertainers.

From "River", by Bill Staines

River, take me along
In your sunshine, sing me a song
Ever moving, and winding and free;
You rolling old river, you changing old river,
Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea.
Bill Staines entered the Boston area folk scene in the 1960s, as a regular performer at Club 47 in Cambridge, now Passim. His music ranges from traditional folk to country, and has been called "a slice of Americana". In 1975, he won the National Yodeling Championships, and regularly performs several songs which feature his yodeling.

Bill is a popular performer, driving over 65,000 miles a year to play at folk venues throughout the country. He has also appeared on Prairie Home Companion and a few other TV shows.

Bill lives in Dover, New Hampshire. I have included an excerpt from his song "River", often an audience favorite which he is expected to end a performance with.

The Cache:
NOTE: The river has again flooded and I believe carried off the cache. The clump of trees where it was hidden now has a hollow trench in front of it where the river flowed through the place last week. Plus, the path leading to the river is getting a bit brushy, probably not fun in summer. So I have moved it inland, and it is now a P&G.

This cache is, where else, near a river. If you follow a short trail from the corner of the road, you will come to a nice place to watch the river flow by.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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