Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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September 2000

Publicity helps.

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-07 | Last message: 2000-09-14
WOW!!  I can't believe all the activity generated by the recent CT article. I am going to continue to ping the assistant editor of our local Fredericksburg, VA paper to do an article. (he is...

Letterbox Webring

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-07
Marty,   Tell me about taking over the Letterbox web ring...  I have always found the webring attachments on my web sites to be very helpful in getting contacts on my police and Boy Scout...

tips for the beginer

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-07 | Last message: 2000-09-07
L&H, my 8 year old son Ned and I would be pleased to show you around our back yard at Hartman Park in Lyme, where there are 4 letterboxes especially designed for children. You can see the clues...

Letterboxing webring going under

Started by Marty Chamberlain (martyc@cyberdude.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-07
Webring just merged with Yahoo.com and the structure of webring is changing. I don't have the time to manage it anymore, let alone transition it to yahoo. I think the best thing to do is for...

CA letterboxes

Started by Linda Aplin (linda@auc.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-06 | Last message: 2000-09-06
Matthew et al, Over the long weekend I had the opportunity to visit the Auburn California letterbox. I was the 3rd visitor to the box. This is my first box I've found -- I've placed 9, lost 7, found...

Just getting started in CT

Started by Christopher Van Loon (vanloonc@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-06 | Last message: 2000-09-08
Hi all, Like some of the recent posters to this list, I too first heard of letterboxing by reading the article in the Sunday, September 3 edition of the Hartford Courant. It really excited me, I...

Yahoo...

Started by John De Wolf (jdewolf@mail.icrsurvey.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-06
JayD wrote:  -Think about maybe joining the "webring" you'll see at the bottom of many of our pages: it makes it easy for people to surf letterboxing sites without having to use yahoo.[John De...

Question about adding clue links...

Started by Ruthann aka Mirkwood (mirkwood3@aol.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2000-09-06 | Last message: 2000-09-07
Hi, I am in the midst of creating an entire Web site devoted to letterboxing that will house the clues to the boxes I am placing (it's not quite ready yet). Should I ask for the entire site to be...

The Firebolt hitchhiker

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-06
Tom, I see that someone has discovered the Firebolt hitchhiking at Gryffindor Tower! Wonder where it'll turn up next? JayD

time (again)

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-06 | Last message: 2000-09-07
Carolyn, I put the links to Wolf Rock and Bicentennial Pond, Silly Songs,... up this morning, but forgot to upload the files. Oops! I'll get them working tonight, hopefully in time for your kids to...

Avoid Speeding Tickets

Started by (cey12@primaerdata.no) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-06
INTERNATIONAL DRIVER'S LICENSE Need a new driver's license? Too many points or other trouble? Want a license that can never be suspended or revoked? Want ID for nightclubs or hotel...

Bowman's Hill Box

Started by (Judi@SpaceFamily.net) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-06
We tried to find the Bowman's Hill Box without success. I know we were close, but running out of time. We'll just have to learn about those trees a little better, and make another run at it later. ...

Skip in Shanghai, China

Started by Jay (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-05
WOW....  Letterboxing in China..... What a road trip... Go for it Skip   Jay C. Fredericksburg, (got a couple more coming soon) VA

Mortgage info for letterbox-usa (ADV)

Started by (nocreditcheck@instant-mortgage-quotes.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-05
This email is sent to letterbox-usa@egroups.com, to be removed from our mailing list press reply or call 1-888-339-6418The Home Loan Source Fill in our quick quote request form and your loan...

New Maryland letterbox

Started by Jay Chamberlain (ae4mk@1bigred.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-05
Well.... I did find time this past weekend, in between the rain storms to place a new box on Assateague Island. On Sunday, the family went outlet shopping and I hit the beach, rain or no...

time

Started by Carolyn Stearns (cstearns@neca.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-05 | Last message: 2000-09-05
How long or how often is the website updated. I am introducing this as a 4-H project at our initial meeting Sept. 20 I hope the clues I  post in the next few days could be up  for them to...

Bicentennial Pond ,Silly Songs and Poets,Mansfield ,Ct.

Started by Carolyn Stearns (cstearns@neca.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-05
Bicentenial Pond, Silly Songs and Poets, Mansfield , Ct.   Submitted By: Cock-A-Doodle-Moo 4-H club   Time: under 1 hour   Rating : Easy   Bump Bump bittem bottom wattum chu Bump bump bittem...

New MA Box: Blue Hills

Started by Jeremy Disch (jdisch@emerald.tufts.edu) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-05 | Last message: 2000-09-05
Yet another one just placed in the Blue Hills. It looked like it was going to rain the whole weekend, but we lucked out and were able to enjoy a few hours in this Magnificent park just 30 minutes...

Great Article

Started by (twograysquirrels@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2000-09-05 | Last message: 2000-09-05
I just read the article in the paper. That was really a good write up. Nice to put a face or at least a body to some of the names. I got to the article by going to http://www.ctnow.com and then doing...

Window Stickers

Started by Annie (bburton@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-05
Good Morning Everyone, I like the idea of window stickers too. My son has them made for his race car, so I have a source! Do we want the LBNA 'logo'? That has my vote, but is there any copyright...

Grand Monadnock No. 2

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-05
We had the most fabulous long weekend at our favorite New England rock pile, and couldn't resist planting another letterbox. The first had a tongue-in-cheek note from an "accidental" visitor that...

Lake Champlain et al

Started by (teapot@teapot.mv.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-04 | Last message: 2000-09-06
I don't think so - wasn't there an email from someone a few months ago who placed a few in Manitoba? maybe it was posted on the other list? nisa Fred Lorch wrote: > We also placed "companion...

Another box for the "Whites"

Started by Annie (bburton@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-04
Here's another box for the White Mountains of New Hampshire Enjoy, Annie B, Debbie C, Evelyn M (aka "The Elements of Hiking") "SCOUT" White Mountains New Hampshire Clue Difficulty: Moderate -...

Wolf Rock Clues

Started by Carolyn Stearns (cstearns@neca.com) | 1 message | First message: 2000-09-04
Take Rte 195 to Mansfield Center , Ct.  Turn onto Brown's Rd at the Congregational church. Follow to the  fork in the road . Take the left branch Crane Hill Rd.  A few hundred feet up  park...

Letterboxing in the news!

Started by Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2000-09-04 | Last message: 2000-09-06
Special thanks to Claudia Van Nes (P0F3, I think) for her wonderful article in the Sunday Hartford Courant. This is a widely circulated "statewide" and it's got a terrific picture of Eric "the...