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The Rose Family Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/19/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is the ninth cache in the Robert Frost Poem series.

Please enjoy his poem below and then search for the cache that you seek.


About Frost, President John F. Kennedy, at whose inauguration the poet delivered a poem, said, “He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding.”

The Rose Family

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only know
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.

-Robert Frost

*****The cache you seek is small. This is a cemetery, so please be respectful. Once at the coordinates, please use the following instructions to figure out the final coordinates for the cache container.

The headstone you seek displays a woman's first name and a middle initial. Use the NUMERIC value of the letters in her name and her initial to figure the final coordinates: N39 40.ABC W077 45.DEF

A. First letter of FIRST name MINUS Last letter of FIRST name.

B. First letter of FIRST name PLUS Last letter of FIRST name.

C. Two Digits of MIDDLE name initial added together.

D. First letter of FIRST name ADDED to First digit of MIDDLE name initial.

E. Two digits of MIDDLE name initial subtracted from each other.

F. First letter of FIRST name.

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh jvyy xabj gur pbeerpg urnqfgbar ol hfvat gur gvgyr nf n uvag. Gur svany pnpur vf n fubeg jnyx sebz gur przrgrel.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)