YOU ARE INVITED TO COME HELP KENYANSHERPA CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF GEOCACHING (JUNE 2005 TO JUNE 2025) AT THE EAST LIBRARY.
The coords will get you to the front doors. Go inside and go left. We will meet in the East Annex which is down the hall past the restrooms..
AND YOU CAN "SCORE" SOME SWAG BY BEING AT THE EVENT NO LATER THAN 1:00 !
You may have heard someone refer to a score as a quantity and wondered what it means. A score is 20. Although people don’t use the term much anymore, you can find examples of it in literature and history.
The first use of the word “score” to refer to 20 items goes back to around 1100. “Score” was a term for counting herds of sheep or cattle. Shepherds or cattle hands would count 20 of the livestock and make a mark on a stick to indicate that they had counted 20 sheep or cows. Counting by scores allowed the livestock hands to keep up with large quantities of cattle or sheep without losing count.
We can find counting by scores in the Bible, as well as in other texts. In the Bible, you can encounter counts of scores in older translations like the King James Version. One example of counting by scores in the Bible includes Exodus 15:27. Here the Israelites encountered 70 palm trees, or “threescore and ten palm trees.”
You can also come across the word “score” to refer to 20 of something in famous literature like the plays of Shakespeare. In
Macbeth, an old man says, “Threescore and ten I can remember well.” What he means is that he can remember the last 70 years of his life.
You can find examples of American speakers using the word “score” to represent 20 of something. Using that method of counting allows the speaker to make a point that sounds like something out of the Bible or literature. For example, in Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, he referenced the Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect 100 years earlier, by saying “five score years ago.”
Of course, the most memorable use of “score” is Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Lincoln began that famous speech with a reference to “four score and seven years ago.” That number of years (87) refers to 1776, when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence.
So why is this event named A Score of Geocaching? Well, I'm glad you asked, "As it was one Score ago that Kenyansherpa started geocaching!"