For a few days each August, TJ is the locale of the annual Arlington County Fair. Since 1976, the Fair has been a welcome meeting place and marketplace for Arlingtonians and anyone who enjoys a carnival, midway, food, entertainment, and an air-conditioned indoor array of competitive exhibits, vendors, community organizations, and even politicians.
Unique to both Virginia and the Washington DC metro region, the Fair is open to all, and charges no admission fee! In a typical year with good weather, an estimated 75,000 persons visit the Fair.
You can read more about the Fair and its attractions at arlingtoncountyfair.us.
This cache is being introduced during the week of the 2013 Fair.
With any luck you will see ribbons on your CO's entries in the Fair's Photography contest.
One challenge for cachers during the Fair itself is the sheer volume of public traffic. This cache is located in an area isolated from crowds of Fairgoers but nonetheless a major foot traffic path, for people who park their cars on side streets near the north side of US 50. Throughout the year, TJ students and users of the Community Center also traverse this particular area. So discretion is mandatory.
The container is a US Army decontamination kit container, dark drab green. It is sized to hold small trade goods, coins and such. BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
Make sure the container lid closes with a SNAP. If you do not hear the snap, then you have not actually closed it.
Initial contents:
A golf ball labeled St Andrews Old Course, of interest to golfers
A hard drive motor
A hard drive motor ring
Three iridescent marbles
A wooden Tuit coin (a round tuit, get it? A perfect sarcasm for the laggard in your family)
A 1985 Chuck E Cheese arcade token
A US Patent and Trademark Office photocopier token from the early 1980s
An L5 Society lapel pin
And for FTF, two special goodies:
A mutant walnut shell with trilateral symmetry, 10+ years old so don't bother opening it, everything has dried up inside.
A strip of 3 frames from a circulation print of the original Star Trek TV series. This was in a collection of frames purchased by your CO from Majel Barrett in the late 1970s (she turned her cleanup of Gene's garage into a profitable business). Back in that time, ST episodes were sent to stations on film, and stations spliced in commercials on film, often in a hurry. When the prints came back to the distributor, the splices were redone and a few frames hit the floor. These are those frames, faded but recognizable, or so we were told in the newsprint catalog of garage contents.
It is worth repeating: make sure the container lid closes with a SNAP. If you do not hear the snap, then you have not actually closed it.