Dear Jeremy,

I second Nisa in saying what a great way to propose. These boxes look
like a great addition to our New England fund. I have put in a link
to your clue page from our southern New England map.

Best wishes,

Tom Cooch




The Orient Express
Braintree, VT
P13F50

"The game is afoot!"

Jeremy,

What a wonderful way to propose! Greta's one lucky girl :)

Could you add the terrain difficulty? The spousal unit and I are gathering up
the clues for all the easy letterboxes for summer/fall outings when our
letterboxer in the bud has finally arrived!

Nisa
P2F1

Jeremy Disch wrote:

> I just started letterboxing this year. Although I have known about it
> for some time now, thanks to my parents' influence. This past weekend I
> got together with my family to put out a series of four boxes in the
> central Mass area. I have decided to call them "The Proposal", and it is
> dedicated to my future wife. (Because this is the method I employed to ask
> my love for her hand in marriage.) I wonder if this would count as a
> first? :)
>
> Anyhow, the clues are included as an attachment, and I will keep a copy on
> my own website (which is still under remodeling).
> http://www.tufts.edu/~jdisch/letterboxing/proposal.html
>
> Please put it up on the LbNA site, thanks.
>
> Now that the snow has melted we can finally get back out this weekend to
> find more around the Boston area.
>
> Jeremy and Greta F1P4X4
>
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> Jeremy Disch |Department of Chemistry www.tufts.edu/~jdisch
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Nice work Jeremy--I can't wait to give these a try once the ground gets
just a tad drier!

Oh boy, another beautiful letterboxing season about to begin....

Bonnie
In muddy Massachusetts
P7F7

At 11:42 PM 02/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I just started letterboxing this year. Although I have known about it
>for some time now, thanks to my parents' influence. This past weekend I
>got together with my family to put out a series of four boxes in the
>central Mass area. I have decided to call them "The Proposal", and it is
>dedicated to my future wife. (Because this is the method I employed to ask
>my love for her hand in marriage.) I wonder if this would count as a
>first? :)
>
>Anyhow, the clues are included as an attachment, and I will keep a copy on
>my own website (which is still under remodeling).
>http://www.tufts.edu/~jdisch/letterboxing/proposal.html
>
>Please put it up on the LbNA site, thanks.
>
>Now that the snow has melted we can finally get back out this weekend to
>find more around the Boston area.
>
>Jeremy and Greta F1P4X4
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Jeremy Disch |Department of Chemistry www.tufts.edu/~jdisch
>jdisch@tufts.edu |Tufts University www.tufts.edu/
>P-323 ext. 75745 |Rybak-Akimova Research Lab welcome.to/rybaklab
> |Graduate Student Council www.tufts.edu/~gsc
> |GCMS/MALDI Instrument TA
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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How sweet! Congratulations Jeremy and Greta, and best wishes for
happiness and lots of fun!

Jay & Margaret

Jeremy,

We will plan on visitng the pre-nuptual boxes this Spring - neat story!


Best wishes,
Susan
Vermont

Thanks for all of the good wishes.

As for the terrain, I would list it as Easy-Moderate (Boxes=Easy, Chasm
floor/Cliffs=Moderate). Leaning toward Moderate because we were concerned
last fall when we saw a woman carrying her infant in her arms while rock
scrambling in the chasm floor. Needless to say it made our hair stand!!! I
definately just wanted to put a word of caution on the rating. Small
hills, very short and well marked and traveled trails.

It was quite muddy this past weekend, and still quite icy (The chasm has a
natural cooling effect, which keeps ice and snow till spring.)

I figure if the current weather holds, conditions should improve quite
quickly. So that if you do visit, you don't take home a lot of central
MA mud in your car.

Jeremy

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jeremy Disch |Department of Chemistry www.tufts.edu/~jdisch
jdisch@tufts.edu |Tufts University www.tufts.edu/
P-323 ext. 75745 |Rybak-Akimova Research Lab welcome.to/rybaklab
|Graduate Student Council www.tufts.edu/~gsc
|GCMS/MALDI Instrument TA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jeremy and Greta -
Congratulatins to you both! WE wish you the best.
Your clues are beautifully poetic - what a nice form for letterboxing to
take. I am sure it is a first.

Erik in Vermont