> I just noticed your addition to Marty's Letterbox Ring this afternoon
> - the Letterbox Series site. Did you announce this while I was
> sleeping, or did you modestly let this go by unheralded? It is a
> spectacular addition!!!!!!! The two series you have started with are
> great choices, and I am sure we will all come up with many more.

Thanks. I guess I figured it didn't need a separate e-mail to announce
it, that people would find it eventually.

The idea is to group letterboxes by different people into series that
have a common thread, and then people may want to collect the series.
Its sort of another dimension on the idea of collecting all the stamps
of a particular artist (do we call someone who hides boxes an "artist"
or a "hider", or is there some cool Dartmoor term for this, or should we
make one up?). In any case, it is sort of an unplanned thing, but if
people want to work on creating a series I'll put it on the page when it
has a few boxes in it (this idea is also sort of different than individual
series that people have done, but if people want me to put individual
series on it mabye I will).

The two series now are "first in each state", (since the Smithsonian
article anyway), and "those on the Appalachian Trail" (a series I have
completed, for now anyway :-)). You can find the page at
http://www.letterboxing.org/series.html or through the webring if you
want.

--
Randy "the mapsurfer"
Orienteer * Letterboxer * Globetrotter
http://www.letterboxing.org/faq.html

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Hi Randy!

Sheila (Bob Woodruff Park box) and I had a conversation about this not too
long ago...which box was first in Texas?...and we concluded that it was
actually the first one in the Duck Creek series in Garland. I had thought
that it was hers and said so on the list, but she corrected me! (Sadly it
was one of the 3 that went missing earlier this year.)

Julie

p.s. I really like your idea to list boxes this way--it's very interesting
and easy to read.

"Nothing is really work unless you would
rather be doing something else."
--Sir James Barrie


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randy@mapsurfer.com writes:

> if people want to work on
> creating a series I'll put it on the page when it
> has a few boxes in it (this idea is also sort of different than individual
> series that people have done, but if people want me to put individual
> series on it mabye I will).

Randy,
I also think your new page is a great addition to the webring!!

I was contemplating how the series that individuals have done would fit into
this scenario, but decided that most of the individual series boxes are
already linked together on the clue pages, so there's no need to add them to
your page.

You spoke of inventing a word for letterboxing artists/placers... maybe there
should be a special term for the sorts of cross-continent series that your
page is devoted to (besides the word SERIES, which Dartmoorians seem to like
to use for the individual variety). Chain? Train? String? This seems to
be something new that doesn't really apply to UK letterboxing, which is
mostly confined to Dartmoor.

Der Mad Stamper

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Randy:
> the Letterbox Series site. Did you announce this while I was
> sleeping, or did you modestly let this go by unheralded? It is a
> spectacular addition!!!!!!! The two series you have started with are
> great choices, and I am sure we will all come up with many more.

I agree with Tom - its a great way to fold together boxes by different
individuals that have a common location.

Perhaps sometime along, there could be a Long Trail Series, (VT's, which
preceed the Ap. Long Trail!) There will soon be half a dozen boxes in
this series! And, I'd like to suggest a Lake Champlain (a really GREAT
lake!), after I get a few more (now 3) out this summer.

All in all, things just keep getting better!

Erik
Viking of VT



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