Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts Traditional Cache
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Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
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You are looking for a regular size Tupperware type container inside Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park. Admission is $4.00 per vehicle. $1 if you walk or bike in; open 8 a.m. to sunset.
Every year I spend several weeks at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park as coordinator of their Elderhostel program. I’ve always loved the hiking and paddling in this area, but the history of the region and Stephen Foster were new to me when I started this gig. This cache is part of the Stephen Foster series…five caches in or near the park named for Stephen Foster songs.
Although Stephen Foster wrote hundreds of songs that were wildly popular and are familiar to the world 150 years later, he wasn’t a particularly good businessman, and he had kind of a sad life. On January 13, 1864 he died broke and alone in New York City at age 37. In his pocket were 38 cents and a scrap of paper that read “dear friends and gentle hearts”…perhaps the title of his last, unwritten song.
This cache will bring you to a site where you can hear Foster’s music played four times a day on the world’s largest set of tubular bells. The 97-bell carillon was completed in 1958. The largest, low C bells weight 426 pounds each and are 12 and a half feet long. Concerts are played every day at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
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(Decrypt)
Ghpxrq orgjrra n cnyzrggb, n cvar naq (V guvax) na bnx.
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