FSC-2013 Our Lady Queen of Peace (New Castle) Mystery Cache
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FSC-2013 Our Lady Queen of Peace (New Castle)
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This cache was originally placed for the First State Challenge 2013 sponsored by Delaware Geocachers! Although the challenge has ended, this cache is still available to be found!!
Cache Details:
THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES.
This is a field puzzle at a very large object. Do not try to access the cache from I-295, use parking coords. To find the final cache you need to find :
A= Number of letters in the person’s last name who assembled the statue. (Hint :see sign, his first name is Matt )
B = Number of toes visible on the statue
The final cache location is
N 39° 41.122 and W 075° 32.A9B
Check sum A + B = 9. You will have to drive about 1 mile to the final cache.
Description:
Charles Parks, one of the country's best figurative sculptors, created beautiful portrait busts and figures, liturgical figures, and animals in a wide range of media including bronze and welded steel. Parks' vast body of work contains well over 500 sculptures.
Charles Parks was a master sculptor in the classical tradition. He was commissioned by both major corporations and private individuals to create hundreds of realistic and exquisitely detailed portrait busts and figures. The sculptures of Charles Parks spans the globe from Stockholm to San Francisco. More than 900 collectors exhibit his work in corporations, hospitals and medical centers, museums, public parks, religious sites, theaters, state and municipal government locations, academic institutions and private homes. Mr. Parks' projects ranged from war memorials to life size figures of entire families.
In 1982 the Charles Parks' statue of Our Lady of Peace was commissioned by Father John J. Sweeney, pastor of the Our Lady of Peace Parish in Santa Clara, California. Mr. Parks' studio was located in Wilmington, Delaware, and because of the tremendous interest in the Madonna, the statue was displayed in Rodney Square which is located in center city Wilmington before it was moved to a permanent site in California. Thousands of people came to view this awesome statue of Mary and were saddened when She left the Wilmington area. In 1998, Charles Parks commissionedto build another statue of Our Lady of the Millennium. This time the Madonna was again temporarily exhibited on the newly developed Riverfront in Wilmington before She was taken to Her permanent site in Chicago.
The desire to have a sculpture of Our Lady by Charles C. Parks grew in the hearts of many people who viewed the statue in Rodney Square and the Riverfront and culminated into an organized commitment to have a "Mary of our own" in Delaware. In the Fall of 1999, several people met to discuss a Parks' statue of Our Lady for Delaware. The next step was to meet with Charles Parks and to discuss the details of his creating another statue of the Blessed Mother. At that time, the cost to build the statue was $450,000. However, the face of the statue was changed and is fashioned after the face Our Lady of Medjugorje. This change cost an additional $50,000.00.
The statue of Our Lady Queen of Peace was finally brought home to the ground of Holy Spirit parish. She welcomes approximately 40,000 cars driving over Delaware Memorial Bridge daily. Sadly, Charles Parks passed away in October of 2012 but left the Dioceses of Wilmington and the people of Delaware a wonderful gift.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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