I wonder how many people drive by here daily with no concept what lies beyond this gate. This old path, lined typically on either side with field stone walls, is the former driveway of Jacob Riis. Riis was a Danish immigrant to America. Arriving in 1870 with $40 in his pocket, Riis died in 1914 a successful author, photographer, instigator of New York City's safe drinking water & small parks, champion of the poor, father of four and friend of a president. Riis is considered the father of flash photography. It was this skill along with his reporting on New York City's slums which Riis successfully combined in his work "How The Other Half Lives" that earned him and his contemporaries the moniker 'Muckraker's' by Theodore Roosevelt . Riis moved to this farm in 1907 with his second wife, and passed away in May of 1914. Riis is buried a short ride west on 62, in Riverside cemetery. Along the way you can snag a cache located within the cemetery, plus a couple along the way. Riis is memorialized with a simple stone outside the gates of the cemetery itself, and an unmarked boulder within the cemetery proper.
This cache is a small Bison tube with just a log. BYOP Congratulations to SCOUT98 for FTF