Bucky Covington Traditional Geocache
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A micro cache located across the street from Covington's Body Shop, former home of a local boy made good. DO NOT PARK IN THE GRASS OR THE BODY SHOP PARKING LOT!!! Plenty of parking can be found at the Baptist Church about 30 yards to the East or on North Street, about 30 yards to the west. The cache is no more than five feet from the road.
In February and March of 2006, Richmond County North Carolina went a little bit crazy. Local singer William "Bucky" Covington II had been accepted as a contestant on the wildly popular television show "American Idol". As we all watched, he made it into the top 12, then the top ten, before long his picture was on the front page of the Richmond County Daily Journal every day, and huge crowds were gathered on city hall plaza to watch American Idol on a huge TV placed there for the occasion. Bucky made it to eighth place on the 2005-2006 season before he was eliminated.
Part of Bucky's appeal were his humble beginnings as a mechanic working in his Father's body shop. Find this cache and you can see where it all began.
Since being eliminated from Idol, Bucky has gone on to bigger and better things:
In November and December of 2006, Bucky Covington performed on the GAC Country Music Christmas tour, making him the 1st Idol from the 5th season to be part of a major non-American Idol concert tour.
His debut album, Bucky Covington, was released on April 17, 2007, to positive reviews. It debuted on the Billboard 200 at #4 selling 61,000 copies. It also debuted at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart, making the album the best opening week for a debut album by a male on the chart since Billy Ray Cyrus' 1992 debut.
When you find this cache, just remember that we live in an amazing land of opportunity.
"Chase your dreams. They don't come to you."
-Bucky Covington
FYI:
This cache would count for Page 72 on the North Carolina Delorme Challenge (GCTYE6), and for Richmond County on the North Carolina County Challenge (GC19YRC)
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