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Becky's Cross Country Letterboxes

2 messages in this thread | Started on 1999-06-16

[L-USA] Re: Becky's Cross Country Letterboxes

From: Charles (charles@bcasol.co.uk) | Date: 1999-06-16 21:35:43 UTC+01:00
You could call it "Howards Way". For US participants this is a silly UK
joke - "Howards Way" was an old UK TV program.

Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Howard
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Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 10:32 AM
Subject: [L-USA] Becky's Cross Country Letterboxes


> >From Graham Howard
> aka The Moorland Wizard
> >
> London, Cambridge, Dartmoor and cyberspace
>
>
> Becky wrote...
>
> > . . I guess I could get some boxes together and place them along the
> >way. ummm
>
> >. . . maybe they could all have the same theme stamp!
>
>
> > Becky's first cross country letterboxing trip!
> >
> >Becky
> This is excellent and magical idea....a nice way to follow a path across
> the nation in letterboxes
>
> ....Becky leads the way...great...
>
> The idea of 50 in Y2K is fine ..but what about 2001...maybe a great
> American Trail ...with a golden spike stamp no doubt at the mid point !
>
>
> I am also emailing to a genealogy group who are tracking some all-American
> Howard's on their cross country journeys of the past...so this journey
> idea seems a very American style of letterboxing...dating back to the
> great land grabs and pioneering days
>
> It's a great letterboxing idea...and also a true American tradition !
>
> This lowly wizard would enjoy retracing ancestral "Howard" journeys and
> also following some other Journey Boxes like Becky's ideas.
>
> ...Though the crossing on foot of the frozen Mississippi River ( like one
> "John Baker Howard" in mid winter 1830 ) is maybe pushing letterboxing a
> little too far...
>
> A wonderfu new tradition....
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Graham Howard...The Moorland Wizard.
>
> >
> >
>
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[L-USA] Re: Becky's Cross Country Letterboxes

From: Thom Cheney (tcgrafx@imagina.com) | Date: 1999-06-16 14:23:38 UTC-07:00
Charles wrote:
>
> You could call it "Howards Way". For US participants this is a silly UK
> joke - "Howards Way" was an old UK TV program.
>


yeah... over here, all we got was "Howard's End".... not sure we want to
go into that....
--
Thom Cheney
tcgrafx... among other things

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