Nelly Bly Traditional Geocache
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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.
Stephen Foster was America’s first professional songwriter. “Nelly Bly” was one of his most popular in the mid-1800s, and later one of America’s first female journalists took the song’s title for her pen name. The real-life Nelly Bly was known variously as a social crusader or a muckraker, depending on who was doing the telling, but what is certain is that she ignored the social expectations for women of her time and made history travelling the world as an adventurous reporter.
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Ng gur onfr bs n snyyra gerr, nobhg 60 srrg vagb gur gerr yvar ba gur abegu fvqr bs gur pyrnevat.