September 21st only occurs on a Tuesday 56 times every 400 years (as opposed to Saturday or Sunday which happens 57 times, or Monday, Wednesday or Friday, which happens 58 times. Just thought you should know. Of corse, since this event occurs on the 20th, none of that matters. Or does it?
It was on this day (well, actually, the 21st), in 1780, that Benedict Arnold (a Brigadier General in the Continental Army) met with Major John Andre of the British Army and turned over the plans to fort at West Point, New York,. He went on to defect to the British Army and lead attacks on men he had formerly commanded. The monument at Fort Griswold, in Groton Connecticut has a plaqure with the following statement: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, A.D. 1830, AND IN THE 55TH YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE U.S.A. IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE PATRIOTS, WHO FELL IN THE MASSACRE AT FORT GRISWOLD, NEAR THIS SPOT, ON THE 6TH OF SEPT. A.D. 1781, WHEN THE BRITISH, UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE TRAITOR, BENEDICT ARNOLD, BURNT THE TOWNS OF NEW LONDON AND GROTON, AND SPREAD DESOLATION AND WOE THROUGHOUT THIS REGION."
Later, in 2004, Zekester and Simon (who weren't Z&S yet) hid one of their first letterboxes at Fort Griswold just prior to entering a successful career in geocaching.
The Carroll County Caching Fellowship (C3F) cordially invites you to enjoy the pleasures of the social side of the geocaching hobby! To find out who we are and what we're about, please visit http://c3f.finditlogitspreadit.info. Come on out and meet fellow cachers, share stories of your trials and tribulations (or Trials and Tubulations!) in searching for that elusive hide, and swap travel bugs and geocoins. Here's a chance for you to experience the part of the hobby that doesn't feature poison ivy, ticks, mosquitos, chiggers, leeches, cockleburs, beggar's lice, thorns or greenbriar! Instead, come observe the oddities of human behavior as your fellow cachers wander 'round the parking lot scribbling down codes from trackable vehicles, shooting photos of each other's nametags, and generally examining each other closely to insure they have not missed a trackable t-shirt, bracelet, earings or necklace! Hear tales of DNF woe (bring extra kleenex, would ya'?). Hear tales of FTF triumph (bring extra champagne will ya'?).
Regular attendees at this monthly event include some truly stellar cachers from our local area, who are filled with caching wisdom, friendly, and eager to share their experience and help answer questions if you need assistance. If you are new to geocaching, we are eager to get your caching career off to an excellent start! We have master puzzle cachers, master woodsmen, geotrail kings and queens, prolific cachers, and once-in-a-whilers. We have Rogi! We have bugs! We have way too much hype and excitement!
But beyond all that, with all sincerity, we have a tremendous group of regular attendees who are always looking for ways to give back to the geocaching community, and are truly a pleasure to be around. All are welcome, so please come and join the crowd!
Makes you all weepy, don't it? Ok let's get back to being silly!
WARNING***WARNING****WARNING
THE GOVERNMENT OF ELDERSBURG INTERRUPTS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CAUSE THE SPREAD OF THE ZTB VIRUS. PARTICIPANTS MAY BE EXPOSED TO MORBID HUMOR, EDGAR ALLEN POE REFERENCES, AND SUBTLE, SUBLIMINAL AFFECTS WHICH MAY CAUSE THE DESIRE TO EAT SPAM. ATTENDANCE OF THIS EVENT MAY RESULT IN, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHAMBLING, DROOLING, MOANING, A CRAVING FOR SWEETBREADS, REALITY ALTERING PERCEPTIONS, AND A SERIOUSLY UNPLEASANT AND PERSISTENT BODY ODOR.
FURTHER DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE: WWW.FINDITLOGITSPRREADIT.INFO
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Bah. Pesky government weenies. Just because there was a huge breakout of zombie travel bugs all over the planet recently doesn't mean it is a problem here. That's a bunch of malarkey! There IS NO GOVERNMENT in Eldersburg. It is just a census designated place (CDP), whatever that means. Come on out, it'll be just fine!
We will be continuing geocaching crash courses in 2016. At the beginning of each session, we'll conduct a ten minute crash course in some aspect of geocaching, just to get the juices flowing and the conversations started (really this is a vain attempt to keep the puzzle cachers off topic, it never works). This month's topic, will be: Power caching on Power Island with Powerful C3F Power cachers, presented by Deepdish23 productions, in collaboration with Alzarius Enterprises and Zeke International. Produced by Simon Says, LLC. Got a request? Post it in your "will attend" log!
Be sure to ask Zekester what "Be the Bug" means! No, it is not a virus!!!
Also, there are a number of caches nearby in Eldersburg, be sure to check them out!
For whom: This event is for YOU!!! Regardless of whether you have found a handful of caches or thousands of them, or you just have a burgeoning interest, all are welcome! We don't bite (well our zombies do, but we don't) , we're really nice! Honest! Ask anyone!
When? 6:00PM to 8:00PM, on Tuesday, 20SEP2016.
Where? Panera Bread, 6300 Georgetown Boulevard, Eldersburg, Maryland (or just use the convenient coordinates posted above!).
Why? Have dinner. Meet a cacher. Tell a tale. Trade a coin or travel bug. Meet Rogi! Find out what "Be the Bug" means!
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are not required to purchase anything to attend this event.
It's H. G. Wells' birthday!!! Well it will be on the 21st, anyway! Stop by and find a cache on the Island of Dr. Moreau on the way here! Use your Time Machine to get here! Rumor has it that Alzarius will attend as the Invisible Man but he did that last time, so we don't expect to see him. .
This month's raffle may feature a variety of materials useful to cachers, possibly including, but not limited to: 6 volts of surging power, test tubes, tesla coils, erlenmeyer flasks filled with eau de manbear, leftover unused materials from the zombie vats, surplus from the Mercury program, a Winnebago, a haiku puzzle cache, a fully operational TV B Gone, magnetic toroids, an excellent recipe for oysters kirkpatrick, a stuffed whistle-pig, india ink, the ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, U-bolts, lug nuts, filberts, a pheasant claw, night-vision goggles, geocacher cremains, marbles, a meteorite, one hobnail boot (left one, men's 45), a funnel (it was not used in the production of more turkeys, we promise), a mixed variety of animal footprint shoes, two potatoes, a virginal, coriander, a skeleton key, an exultation of larks, tweezers, an egg cuber, a hard copy of the budget of the Unites Sates from 1953, eyeglass repair kits, a condom autograophed by "Smokey" from Las Vegas (we found it in a cache at the Pinball Hall of Fame), a quill pen, O-rings, D-rings, Sawyer, un-hatched Man-Goose eggs (fertilization status unlknown), anisette biscotti, scratch-n'-sniff test cards, a FrogKing, filet mignon, flibberty-gibbets, a harpoon (BUT NO HATCHETS!!!), one unused but fully operational fornistat and a Bergonic Chair (we tried it on Alzarius, but it didn't work). Sometimes there's unmentionables too!. That's right unmentionables (pathtags). Imagine that!
If you pick up a travel bug, please make sure that make sure you log it out so it doesn't show up in the event list.
We are deeply grateful for the joy all of you bring us each month, and for your forebearance with these ridiculous event write-ups!