Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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August 2004

Calling in all Mansfield Monster Mash boxes

Started by Chuck Straub (woodschuckstraub@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2004-08-25 | Last message: 2004-08-27
For all the box makers that have contacted me about making a box or boxes for the Mansfield Monster Mash, it's time to finish them up and send them in. The deadline for us to receive them of...

ME: Bangor Folk Festival

Started by Phyto (phyto_me@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-26
Listen up folkies! Phyto will have a limited time letterbox for the Bangor Folk Festival this weekend. I will be manning the stage crew so potentially look for me wearing my signature orange US...

Any ideas on how to be discreet??

Started by (ladylee84@yahoo.com) | 19 messages | First message: 2004-08-25 | Last message: 2004-08-26
I am looking for suggestions about how to be discreet when trying to retrieve a letterbox without being seen. In this day and age, people are bound to wonder what the heck I am doing poking...

Pug Lovers' TX Boxes

Started by (Stephanie_Albright@Dell.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-25
Hello all! Can anyone provide me on the status of our boxes in TX: Patriotic Pug and Hiking Pug? Thanks, The Pug Lovers

My Website!

Started by (lmd2@aber.ac.uk) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-25
Hi Everyone Just wanted to say that my website has now been updated and contains photos of my recent trip to CT and my meeting with Music Woman and Bluebird in Dartmoor. The address is; ...

Plugging-was Poorly Hidden Boxes

Started by ndnboxing (ndnboxing@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-25 | Last message: 2004-08-25
Also, plugging can be done on rock, but not rocky soil. For example, there is a huge mountain of granite here in GA called Stone Mountain. On the surface of the mountain is holes and crevices that...

ME- Norway Maple Retired

Started by Chuck and Laura Lubelczyk (naturbuf@gwi.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-24 | Last message: 2004-08-25
Just wanted to let you all know that the Norway Maple letterbox located in Wells, Maine has been retired. Clues on the site will change to reflect that and will be removed in a month or so. A...

Attitudes: was Re: Tom Cooch Interview

Started by Steve and Heidi (stephenholyfield@sbcglobal.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-25 | Last message: 2004-08-25
We could not agree more. When we started, we really kept quiet for several months to find our niche and see how this game is played. Our goal has been to have fun, spend time in nature, and meet...

Re. an answer to all our problems

Started by rospa10 (wilmes2@mindspring.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
How about www.Limerickcluesheet.com?.... We've all heard about that famous man from Nantucket;-) Catlover

Re. Poorly Hidden Boxes

Started by rospa10 (wilmes2@mindspring.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-24 | Last message: 2004-08-25
Your post was very informative. Please tell us, what the heck is "plugging", a technique of hiding used in Dartmore? Just curious. Catlover/teacher/gardener

Letterboxes on Open Space

Started by Wes Garrison (letterboxing@wesgarrison.us) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-24 | Last message: 2004-08-25
If you have letterboxes in Jefferson County, Colorado, this message applies to you. The email address to contact is: cgadd DOT_HERE jeffco DOT_HERE us If these boxes are orphaned, please figure out...

Mansfield Monster Mash Missing Masterpieces

Started by Zippity Dodah (postmystress@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
I was just looking around http://chuckstraub.com/Letterboxing/mmmmaker.htm and I see a lot of stamps have not been "star'd" in. It was my understanding they were due in Chuck's hands by Sept 1. ...

Cross Country Letterboxing

Started by (Stephanie_Albright@Dell.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-24 | Last message: 2004-08-24
We are heading from OK to VA (mainly via I-40 and I-81). Does anyone know of letterboxes along that route that would be easy to snatch on our trip? Thanks, The Pug Lovers

In Defense of TIME

Started by funhog1 (funhog@pacifier.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
I, too, am a major skeptic when it comes to the veracity of what I read in print. However, I would like to write in defense of the particular TIME reporters who worked on the this article. I have...

Public Thanks

Started by Lisa (LisMax1128@aol.com) | 13 messages | First message: 2004-08-24 | Last message: 2006-02-06
I really like the idea of public thanks. You can easily do it without mentioning the finders name. They'll know who they are and if they want to be acknowledged, they'll reply. For instance: I...

(south) NJ Letterbox Gathering Info

Started by letterboxingbee (letterboxingbee@yahoo.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2004-08-24 | Last message: 2004-08-24
2nd Annual South Jersey Letterbox Gathering DATE: October 16, 2004 PLACE: Palmyra Cove Nature Park, Palmyra, NJ at the foot of the Tacony- Palmyra...

poorly hidden boxes

Started by edelweiss (vitlaur@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
Some boxes go missing because they are poorly hidden in the first place. Read the Faqs about good hiding spots. Refer to Randy Hall's Letterboxer's Companion, especially pages 28 - 31. Find a...

Thank You hmmmmmmm hmm hmm hm hmmmmm hmm hmm

Started by mrswhinner (mrswhinner@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
It is hard not to be inspired by the prose of our allusive PIH. Now if the list moderator could just get some background music playing we could all sing along. --- In...

new box in WA! Puget Sound Area

Started by Jean (jeanbartbarresi@sbcglobal.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
We placed a new box today at the Redmond Watershed Preserve in Redmond WA today! its called Jack in the Green and Picking Beltane's Flower. THis is a beautiful park with lots of trails and other...

An answer to all our problems

Started by lakesideyouth (bobbelehr@aol.com) | 17 messages | First message: 2004-08-24 | Last message: 2004-08-25
To alleviate tension and disputes that have occured on this messageboard, I hearby recommend that we split letterboxing.org into several small groups. My suggestions: www.MissingLetterboxing.com...

New Box - Saratoga County, NY

Started by highlysung (highlysung@verizon.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
A new box has been posted to the LBNA database. Hadley Mountain Fire Tower in Saratoga County, New York was planted while we vacationed on the Great Sacandaga Lake last week. Enjoy this great...

Accurate Subjects/Flame Thrower

Started by Tara (tarasdsu@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
I just had to tell you that I love your name. I wish I'd thought of it first :P Tara --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Flame Thrower" wrote: > And because I am contrary by nature: > > I...

LB has urban competition

Started by John Chapman (john@johnsblog.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-24
This is pretty funny. Totally unlike LB in so many ways but like it in that there are people that place and people the find. It's Space Invaders, a special type of urban graffiti. My 16 year old son...

Johnny Appleseed Series - Johnny's Love Confirmation

Started by Karen Ruhl (ruhlette@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
I found 2 of the 3 in this series on July 2nd. Can anyone tell me if they found Johnny's Love after this date? It was hot and buggy that day and I felt certain I was on target, but a major obstacle...

George Bush Contacts Us By Phone!

Started by Mark Pepe (mjpepe1@comcast.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2004-08-24 | Last message: 2004-08-24
Hi boxers: This message is not for the politically faint of heart! I just got off of the phone with none other the GW! He has called us to set the record straight and get equal time after Senator...