SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER Traditional Cache
SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER
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This Cache is located at the Taliaferro County American Legion and represents a made for TV movie that was filmed in Crawfordville; Summer of my German Soldier stars Kristy McNichol, as Patty Bergen a young girl in a very southern town with a World War II prisoner of war camp nearby. A young German soldier escapes the prison camp and Patty befriends him.
To find this cache put yourself in the place of Patty. Patty knows what she is risking to help him, but in his company she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been.
To further complicate matters, Patty is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can't seem to love her. Her town host a prisoner of war camp holding many German prisoners. A young German soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret places in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him she ends up harboring him from his captors, and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking to help him, but in his company she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come. Is this a love story or a story about a girl growing up. The movie was based on a book by Bette Greene of the same title. Summer of My German soldier was filmed in and around Crawfordville. Many residents were in the cast including; Sam and Lois Greene, Charles Greene, India Mitchell, Bill Fouche, Paul Dye, Kathleen Mitchell, Chad Brown, Marcus Greene, Robert Morris, Bill Specht, Barbara Miller, Vivian Hallford, Carolyn Moore, Louise Greene and George Jackson. Charles, Greene's 1941 Plymouth can be seen in a number of scenes in the movie. A number of sequences take place inside JP Ellington and Company a clothing store on Main Street, Crawfordville ( N 33 33.256 W 082 53.745 ). Notice the inscription “Holden Block 1910 above the store.
Interesting Facts: You can watch this movie on YouTube but in 10 parts. Just follow the link below to take you to part 1, then you can follow from there on.
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Pick up a movie key tag in this cache. Can you collect a key tag for all the movies made in Crawfordville?
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
“znal fbyqvref unir jnyxrq onpx urer” & "fzbxvat jnf pbzzba va gur sbegvrf"