Tupperware Party Multi-Cache
Hidden : 11/18/2005
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Parking at listed coordinates. This is a 3-part cache. Parts 1 and 2 can be completed via vehicle, bike, or on foot. From parking area, it's an easy walk (2.15mi r/t) on pavement. Part 3 is a short hike (.5mi r/t) to a beautiful scenic location. Cache is a vintage Tupperware Wonderlier Bowl stocked with small Tupperware goodies. Enjoy!

Part 1: (Fact Finding) 42 00.850 / 71 32.820
Tupperware Mill site on Tupperware Drive

Part 2: (Fact Finding) 42 00.953 / 71 32.534
The Stone Depot at Tupper Park

Part 3: (Final) 42 0x.xxx / 71 3x.xxx
Trails in the Blackstone Gorge park; a 50 acre area spanning RI/MA border. Below a rolling dam, the river narrows into a natural gorge and drops 20 feet through a rocky channel while cliffs are 100 feet over the water!

Blackstone Gorge (Mustcache) is a quick find from the same parking coords.
Don't touch those car keys! Where's Gorge? (Joshbro) features more Gorge +swag!
Bit o’ History
Bet you didn’t know that Tupperware, one of the tools of our caching trade, was invented in Leominster, MA and manufactured right here on the RI/MA border!

Click image (right) to visit a PBS website with many fascinating links. It features an AE program called, Tupperware!, which charts the origins of the small plastics company that unpredictably became a cultural phenomenon and reveals the secrets behind Tupperware’s success.
click here for WGBH broadcast schedule

The two people primarily responsible for Tupperware’s incredible success:

the eccentric, exacting inventor, Mr. Earl Silas Tupper and the self-made marketing and sales genius, Ms. Brownie Wise

The first product developed was the “Wonderlier Bowl” with the patented “burping” seal.

In the late 1950's Earl Tupper purchased the mill and 254 acres of land. He used the facility for his newly invented Tupperware products and The Stone Depot to store them. Mr. Tupper built a recreation park on 12 of the acres of land (Tupper Park) to be enjoyed by his employees and their families. In the late 1980's, Tupper sold the park and it remained virtually abandoned from 1988 until 1995 when the Blackstone Valley Boys and Girls Club moved in. The club is restoring "The Stone Depot," a granite structure built in the mid 1800's, to its original splendor to house the club's theater and arts and crafts programs.
So, Where's The Party already?!?

Part 1: Mill coords place you in an abandoned parking lot outside the posted perimeter. Look directly at the tower in the center of the brick mill.
Record 4 digit year shown there as A.BCD

Part 2: Tupper Park coords place you next to a tree.
Face The Stone Depot.
Derive 4 digits E.FGH thus:

E = # of total door openings
F = # of oversized door openings (with curved brickwork above)
G = # of octagonal windows
H = # of window openings from left edge of building to left edge of 1st curved brickwork door opening.

Final:
N = 42 02.681 minus 00 0A.BCD
W = 71 37.305 minus 00 0E.FGH

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