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Who Is Merle? Traditional Cache

Hidden : 11/7/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Easy roadside Park and Grab, plenty of parking space nearby.

Congrats to the "3 Cachers Muskogee" for being the "First To Find" who showed Ninja like skills in evading the Muggles and stickers. Way to go!!

Cache is a Lock & Lock container with gray duct tape. Original contents are--Logbook and Pen
Intruder Alert Alarm System
GPS Food
Pedometer
Personal Fan
Arrowhead Bits With Complete Thumb Scraper and Tiny Crystal
Weird "Lizard That Grows"
OU Boomer Sooner Playing Key chain

What is that big white rock doing over there and who is Merle?

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I had been thinking that for years as I drove by. I sort of knew but not really so I looked and here is what I found out.

Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. Travis was virtually without peer as a guitarist and songwriter. Only Chet Atkins even comes close to the influence that Travis had on the way the guitar is understood and played in country music. Some of the songs he wrote or performed include: "Sixteen Tons", "Dark as a Dungeon", "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed", and "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette"; however, it is his masterful guitar playing that he is best known for today. "Travis picking", a style of guitar picking, is named after him. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977. In 1983, Travis died of a massive heart attack at his Tahlequah, Oklahoma home. So now I know and so do you. He lived not too far from here but I won't tell you where.

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)