Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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January 2001

"Gift to Renee" new RI Box

Started by Bob Hopkins (Hopkinsr1@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2001-01-01 | Last message: 2001-01-06
The gift giver(s) write of Renee Real special to us, an Excellent friend, always Nice and kind to Everyone, a sweet little lady, so Easy to love A treasure for her Nestled in this spot, to Give her...

December 2000

New VA box in Shenandoah NP

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-31
On a snowy , cold and windy day the Chamberlains headed West to Shenandoah National Park. We found the parkway closed because of icy conditions but still managed to find a place to...

Airline Trail

Started by Mark S. Fitton (mfitton@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-31
At 12:38 PM 12/31/2000 +0000, I wrote: >I've been thinking of trying to get the Lebanon Recreation Commission to >fund sprucing up the Lebanon section of the Airline Trail, from where they >left off...

Joshua's Trust & Airline Trail

Started by Mark S. Fitton (mfitton@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-30
>Mark, > I got my copy of the Joshua's Trust Walk book at the Denison Peqotsepos >Nature Center in Mystic. I have also seen them at a store in Lebanon I >think it's called Lebonon Sports...

New letterboxes in the Magic Tree House Series

Started by Kurdziel Patricia J NPRI (KurdzielPJ@Npt.NUWC.Navy.Mil) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-30
With the kids off school we decided to plant all the letterboxes that we have been planning. Now with the snow and the cold weather it may be several weeks before they can be found. Speaking as...

Ditto on the Holiday Lunch Hour Yielding Another VA box

Started by Kathy Lange (Btrplc2b@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-30
A slow day at work this week gave me the chance to visit Crump Park which is the site of historic Meadow Farm. The farm is one of the last remaining 19th-century farms where today a museum and...

Happy Birthday

Started by (cstearns@neca.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-30
Here is a great idea! A local family who got the letterboxing bug from me just reported the success of a letterboxing birthday party. Each guest recieved a goody bag with a rubber stamp and pad in...

Two more Southern California Letterboxes

Started by (twograysquirrels@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-12-29 | Last message: 2000-12-29
Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens Clues Claremont, Los Angeles County, California December 24, 2000 Placed by Squirrel From the parking lot go thru the turn style. Take the right trail along...

A Snails Pace Letterbox clues

Started by (twograysquirrels@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-12-29 | Last message: 2000-12-29
Hi, Hope every one had a nice Holiday. I was out in sunny Southern California looking for birds and places to hide letterboxes. I was not able to get to the few that were hidden there but I did...

SF wildlife refuge #1

Started by (downwell@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-29
My wife and I visited the SF wildlife refuge during our xmas vacation in the bay area. We had no trouble with #2, or with the clue to #1, but #1 does not appear to be there. Whoever salted this...

Where to get Joshua's Trust Book

Started by Valerie Gilson (glassreed@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-29
Hi all... I got my copy (the 1999 edition) of the Joshua's Trust book directly from: Joshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust PO Box 4 Mansfield Center, CT 06250 (860) 429-9023 This...

travel/hitchhiker boxes

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-28
I hope Jay Drew doesn't mind if I share an excerpt from an email he wrote to me... he shared how he stamps a traveler/hitch hiker into multiple, fixed boxes before he finds it a home. I...

Ledyard Oak

Started by Melissa Harvey (kiwi-1@snet.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2000-12-28 | Last message: 2000-12-29
Jay, Thanks for the 3 new letterboxes at the Leyard Oak. We went out today in 18 degrees and found them. I never knew there were hiking trails there. It was a nice little walk, perfect for...

Joshua's Trust Book

Started by Mark S. Fitton (mfitton@snet.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-12-28 | Last message: 2000-12-28
At 11:48 AM 12/28/2000 +0000, you wrote: >Carolyn, > I got Dan the Joshua's Trust book for Christmas. Isn't it great! There >are all kinds of little hiking places around that I never knew...

Holiday lunch hour yields another VA box

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-28
It's so slow...... How slow is it...   It so slow during the week between Christmas and New Years that I had to take a walk during my lunch hour and add another box to Northern Virginia's,...

Letterbox Kits as Gifts

Started by (a1b@exchange.gasco.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2000-12-28 | Last message: 2000-12-28
Hi All! My mate and I gave "letterbox kits" to his two oldest grandchildren for Christmas. This consisted of a letterbox itself, a small Strathmore sketchpad, a stamp pad and a rubber stamp. I...

Database for letterboxes

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-12-28 | Last message: 2000-12-27
Hi, all, and Happy New Year! As letterboxing grows here in North America, we've talked several times about putting together a database program that people could use to input their own new...

Brrrrr

Started by (cstearns@neca.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-12-27 | Last message: 2000-12-30
Who is in charge of the Artic Blast? Well I want to thank them and say we could use a bit of a thaw. It is a well and good to have school vacation but if it is to cold to be on the trail. Well...

Great stamp Squirrel

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-26
Squirrel,   I stamped into your Powell's Creek and Bushy Trail boxes this afternoon. Loved the stamp in Powell's creek. One of your best yet. Now all you need is some double sided sticky and...

New VA box

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-12-26 | Last message: 2001-02-09
The Rose is waiting in the cold, for a warm hand and sunny smile.   http://www.1bigred.com/jayc/letterbox/therose.htm   Jay C.Fredericksburg, VA"The Jolly...

Ledyard Oak (New in CT)

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-26
Here's another in our notable trees series. Sorry we're going back to another historic (read "dead") tree, but hope to get to letterbox some living big trees soon. These clues are also at our...

new letterboxing devotee

Started by (see_joy29@hotmail.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2000-12-25 | Last message: 2000-12-26
hi! happy holidays! my 10yr old recieved a computer for christmas and this is my first attempt to e-mail. we both love letterboxing! we have 5 stamps in our book. i look forward to hearing from...

Mississippi is BOXDN

Started by (boxdn@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-12-23 | Last message: 2000-12-23
Red Bluff Letterbox Morgantown,MS About 11 miles Northwest of Columbia,MS. Take I-55 to Mc Comb, MS go East on US HWY 98 to Columbia. Just before Columbia look for a town called Foxworth turn...

and request for clues CT

Started by Deborah Perry (mperry03@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2000-12-20
Would you > mind spelling it out for me? Something like "drewclan at aol.com" > would do the trick. Great clues!!! > > Jay in rainy-day CT is this what you need? mperry03 at snet.net Debbie P.S....

2 New boxes, Rockland, Co, NY boundary="----=_NextPar

Started by Tom Cooch (tcooch@sover.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-12-20 | Last message: 2000-12-20
Jay, Very nice clues. This one will be fun. They loaded fast for me too. Tom P.S. Is the Harriet the thru hiker a hitch hiker? The Orient Express Braintree, VT P19F107 "The game is afoot!"