Totem if you got'em Traditional Cache
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This cache container is a former medicine bottle camo'd to make it a little harder to see.
As a 3rd grade teacher in town, each year I teach my class the story of our local totem pole. It's quite a colorful story. The pole was carved in 1969 by a Adam Nordwald, an American Indian, to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Livermore. At the bottom of the pole you can see 10 rings, each representing 10 years of Livermore's history. For whatever reason, the city was unaware that the rings were part of the symbolic art of the pole, and they originally buried the pole several feet into the ground, obscuring the bottom few rings. When Adam Nordwald learned of this he asked them to right the situation, and the city refused. Nordwald's response was to put a curse on the city, and shortly thereafter, during a storm, the sewers backed up. Whether or not this is due to the curse is a matter of opinion, but the fact remains that the city dug up the pole and mounted it on a cement pedestal.
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Zntargvp. Arneol greenva vf rnfl gb anivtngr, ohg lbh jvyy arrq gb fgergpu n ovg gb znxr gur teno.
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