Welcome aboard!

To get an overview, take a look at www.letterboxing.org and browse
through the site. How did you find the email group? Where are you? My
husband, Erik, and I are up in Vermont. The most common way for people
to get involved is to take some clues off the web page, find a box and
brag about the experience on the e-group. We also make and hide
letterboxes and post them to the site (you don't need to be a techie, we
have some great volunteers).

We have a few simple guidelines such as:
No politics, no profanity, no religion, no chain letters, no
solicitations, no personal profits from letterboxing. We admire
innovation, consensus building, puns, art, puzzles, supportive
criticism, helpful suggestions, sharing triumphs and, sometimes,
tragedies like lost boxes. We all love Mother Nature and we come from
all kinds of backgrounds. Some boxers participate regularly and some,
alas, are heard from infrequesntly.

Just join in, we welcome you!

Susan Davis
Vermont

8 November 1999

My name is David Ary. I have been trying to find clues to letterboxes in
my area and have had no luck. I live in New Jersey and have clicked on New
Jersey and New York on the Letterboxing USA web page.

I plan to take a group of six eleven year olds out this Saturday to search
for a box -- if I can find a set of clues.

Can you give me some direction?

Dave

Have you tried looking at the Letterboxing North
America site? Its at www.letterboxing.org and is more
up to date than the L-USA site. There should be loads
of letterboxes in that area.

Steven Stary
Green Bay, WI

--- David Ary wrote:
> 8 November 1999
>
> My name is David Ary. I have been trying to find
> clues to letterboxes in
> my area and have had no luck. I live in New Jersey
> and have clicked on New
> Jersey and New York on the Letterboxing USA web
> page.
>
> I plan to take a group of six eleven year olds out
> this Saturday to search
> for a box -- if I can find a set of clues.
>
> Can you give me some direction?
>
> Dave
>
>
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1/8/99

Gary,
Thanks for your timely reply. I have visited www.leterboxing.org and the
page for clues. Although I clicked New Jersey and New York, I did not
receive a response. I have just addressed an e-mail to both NY and NJ
which I believe will be answered by someone in this area.

Thanks for your input.

Dave

Hiya: here are some clues for Liberty park in NJ. They sound a little
hard for kids though. Maybe, if there is nothing close to you, you
could sneak out a day or two early, and plant a box in a nearby park
yourself. Then, you'd be sure to "find" it and keep the kids
interested! Jay

>>>snip>>>>

Well, here's the clues to my first box. I know the whole rhyming thing
is a little corny, but as my mom always said, it's original too :) Oh,
and your hunt begins at Liberty State Park.(14B of the NJ Turnpike )


Where once there were tales of hardship and woe,
A hunt now begins on the Isle of Bedloe. You start from the highest
point in the land, and remember there is no way into the lady's hand.
Gaze down upon the ramparts of the ol' Fort Wood, view it from the
fifth window, you should. Don't forget the point of the star you see
right below, Now head back down to the soil of Bedloe. From the tip of
that star look out toward the sea, in a northerly direction is where
you wish to be. Before your feet carry you into the harbor, you will
notice three machines that help you see farther. Now you ask yourself,
"Which one can it be?" Well, if you originate from Brobdingnag, a
problem finishing the clue I forsee. Give this machine your hard earned
two bits, and scan the horizon for where Old Glory sits. You'll know
you're looking in the correct place, when you see double right before
your face! Now you must use all of your powers, and get yourself in
between those two towers. Here is where the tricky pieces start, Will
you be able to advance to the next part? "Which path from here?" begins
your plight, That's easy, follow your inalienable right. Search down
this path for your next mark, a circle of red surrounding one that is
dark. From the center of this spot look out toward the sky, a group of
tall trees to the north you will spy. Get as close to this grove as the
state will permit, walk as quickly to the yellow marker as you see fit.
At 90 degrees you notice the next step in your quest, when you reach it
pull up a bench for a quick rest. Now you need to know which of the
three paths to choose, follow where the three boats point and you can't
lose. Follow this path to your 54th pace, LEFT FACE! Now off the path,
walk towards the sea, in the cairn between two trees is where your
treasure will be.


Well, I hope everyone has fun with it!
Kimberly P1F8

Hi everybody. I've moved the Massachusetts Letterboxes page to a new
server. The new URL is http://www.crocker.com/~bsennott/letterbox.html

Tom, I set up internal links near the top of the page to each town within
the page. I thought you had asked me to do that a while back. Let me know
if this is what you wanted.

By the way, I had to move the page because I left my old job, where I had a
free Internet account. But it's a very happy change! I'm now the copy
editor in the Office of Communications at Mount Holyoke College. And I
love it!

Happy holidays to you all--
Bonnie
P7F7
In sleety Massachusetts

Bonnie,

Glad to hear you're enjoying a new job! I've changed the links to
your site from the southern New England map. The targets you put in
were just what was needed. Thanks.

Our LbNA site seems to be down at the moment. Not sure why.

Best,

Tom


The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P13F50

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