The listed coordinates are not where the cache is, they are the
location of an equestrian statue of Francis Asbury on the grounds
of a Methodist Church named after the man. It is not necessary to
go look at the statue to find this cache but if you are into
waypointing there is this statue and an adjoining fountain that I
don't think have been listed yet. Francis Asbury was born in
England in 1745 and came to America as a preacher and traveled
widely presenting the gospel. He was the first American Bishop of
the Methodist Church. He traveled widely, about 6000 miles a year
on horseback. He had awesome work habits. He awoke at 4am every
day. He also insisted that all ministers study the Bible for at
least 5 hours a day and followed that example himself. He was the
only Methodist preacher who didn't leave North America during the
Revolutionary War. He continued to preach and never renounced his
English citizenship. He died in the United States in 1816.
But back to geocaching. He never did make it to Oklahoma and
certainly he didn't have a GPSr and there were know satellites
anyway. In addition he doesn’t seem like a man much taken with
slacker sports. Also, there were no laptops, pdas, cell phones,
back packs, walkie-talkies, bug spray, magnetic key holders,
baggies, internet, geocaching.com or any other essential equipment
and supplies necessary for the sport. If he did do any caching he
would have to use some sort of celestial navigation. If you wanted
to go find this cache like Francis Asbury might have, instead of
giving coordinates, he might have said something such as:
"We cannot waste any time on this trivial activity but if you
insist, do it quickly. Be at the statue at exactly 2 minutes 38
seconds after 2PM (CDST) on July 4, 2007. Follow your shadow at a
moderate pace for 4 minutes, 36 seconds, get the cache, open it,
trade whatever trinkets that you have, sign the log, put the cache
back in place, and return to work."
If you can’t be there on the prescribed day and time then you
will have to do some calculating (or for us cheaters, web surfing).
Even if you are there at the right time and date, please don’t walk
through yards and houses so you are going to have to do some
ciphering anyway.
Oh, a moderate pace is equal to 8064 furlongs per fortnight.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.