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Camo peanut butter jar.
Park is closed 10pm-5am, so please refrain from night crawling!
High muggle area, so be careful!
Original items include soccer ball, sea glass, hair thingy, some EatStayPlay coins, and the Leonard the Lobster TB.
This cache honors a famous Gardiner resident, about whom I have learned a lot the past few years.
(Summary below adapted from Wikipedia.com)
Edwin Arlington Robinson, an accomplished poet (won Pulitzer Prize three times), was born in Lincoln County, Maine, but his family moved to Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, in 1870.
His parents, having wanted a girl, did not name him until he was six months old. While they visited a holiday resort, other vacationers decided that he should have a name, and selected a man from Arlington, Massachusetts to draw a name out of a hat. The name Edwin was drawn, and then they added Arlington as his middle name in honor of the man.
In late 1891, at the age of 21, Edwin entered Harvard University. He took classes on English, French, and Shakespeare. His mission was not to get all A's, as he wrote his friend Harry Smith, "B, and in that vicinity, is a very comfortable and safe place to hang".
His real desire was to get published in one of the Harvard literary journals. Within the first fortnight of being there, The Harvard Advocate published Robinson's "Ballad of a Ship."
After Edwin's first year at Harvard, the family endured what they knew was coming. His father, Edward, soon died. He was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Gardiner, within a mile of this park.
In the fall, Edwin returned to Harvard for a second year, but it was to be his last one as a student there. Though short, his stay in Cambridge included some of his most cherished experiences, and there he made his most lasting friendships.
Robinson was back in Gardiner by mid-1893. He had plans to start writing seriously.
With his father gone, Edwin became the man of the household. He tried farming and developed a close relationship with his brother's wife Emma Robinson, who after her husband Herman's death, moved back to Gardiner with her children. She rejected marriage proposals from Edwin twice, after which Edwin Robinson permanently left Gardiner.
He then moved to New York, where he led a precarious existence as an impoverished poet while cultivating friendships with other writers, artists, and would-be intellectuals. In 1896 he self-published his first book, The Torrent and the Night Before, paying 100 dollars for 500 copies. Robinson meant it as a surprise for his mother. Days before the copies arrived, Mary Palmer Robinson died of diphtheria.
His second volume, The Children of the Night, had a somewhat wider circulation. Its readers included President Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit, who recommended it to his father. Impressed by the poems and aware of Robinson's straits, Roosevelt in 1905 secured for the writer a job at the New York Customs Office. Robinson remained in the job until Roosevelt left office.
Gradually, his literary successes began to mount. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the years 1922, 1925 and 1928.
During the last twenty years of his life, he became a regular summer resident at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, where several women made him the object of their devoted attention, but he maintained a solitary life and never married.
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