HBS 10 - Poetry on the Highway: Lanier Oak Traditional Cache

Congratulations to charles@tiff...
...for FTF!!!!

This is the 10th cache in the Historical Brunswick Series.

This is a pretty straight forward park and grab at Lanier Oak in the Marshes of Glynn Park. This park resides on a strip of land between the north and south bound lanes of Hwy 17. There is parking here on both the north and southbound sides. Most muggles will be on the roadway nearby, so try to remain inconspicuous. The cache is a black plastic vial. BYOP and a paper clip or tweezers may make it easier to retrieve the log. The cache is concealed by natural landscaping, please place it back this way.

This park was created in honor of Sidney Lanier, there is a monument and historical marker here as well. Sidney Lanier, Georgia’s greatest poet sat beneath the oak tree at this park and was inspired to write his most famous poem “The Marshes of Glynn”. Lanier was born in Macon, GA in 1842. In 1874, Sidney Lanier came to Brunswick to visit relatives and to rest, as he was suffering from tuberculosis he had contracted during the Civil War. While in Brunswick, he would spend time gazing out upon the marsh from beneath this oak tree. This inspired him to write a set of four poems titled: “Hymns of the Marsh". The four poems inspired by the nearby marsh were, “Sunrise”, “Individuality”, “Marsh Song” and the most famous locally “The Marshes of Glynn”. Not only was Lanier a poet, but he was also a musician. In his later years, Lanier was a lecturer of English literature and faculty member at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.

The oak tree back in Sidney Lanier’s day use to be closer to the water and marsh. When the original Sidney Lanier Bridge was constructed along with the development of Hwy 17 (through the City of Brunswick) in the mid Twentieth Century, the marsh in the area was filled in to build the northbound lane. This is why the marsh is further away from where the tree now stands.