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Up and over from the new Perlan cache. Plenty of time
to catch up with the tour group in the cafeteria.

In: UV detecting color-changing beads
Out: coin 

I like it. Every large city should have one and the nearby establishments. 

BRYANT, ANDREW SYMMES.

Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient

Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company A, 46th Massachusetts Infantry.

Place and date: At New Bern, N.C., 23 May 1863.
Entered service at: Massachusetts.
Born: 3 March 1841, Springfield, Mass.
Date of issue: 13 August 1873.

Citation: By his courage and judicious disposition of his
guard of 16 men, stationed in a small earthwork at the head of the bridge, held in check and repulsed for a half hour a fierce attack of a strong force of the enemy, thus probably saving the city New Bern from capture.

died: 06 October 1931
interred: Springfield Cemetery
Springfield, MA
Locust Path
Plot 529
 

Took the transcript route. Very informative inteview.
Enjoyed finding the answers to the three questions but
was even more fascinated by the insight into here-to-fore, to me, mysterious intelligence glitches by the CIA. 

Broke away from the boring tour guide long enough to get deeper into the forum and locate the cache. Log book was full so I left my business card and added the the usual neoc1 logo. LN. Managed to find lig and replace without drawing much attention on this busy day.

 

Been here before so I had a good idea of where to search. GPS got me right to the proper person. Thanks!

 

Landed and walked to the Vatican to get this virtual. ould hardly miss the inscription. Pick email answers is on its way. Thanks

 

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Quoddy Head, Maine

Thomas Jefferson authorized construction this lighthouse in 1806. It was finished in 1808.
The light is located in Quoddy Head State Park, on the eastern-most point in the United States; where America begins.

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A mandatory stop when traveling between Portland and Freeport. I had a good idea of the object by looking at the position of the coordinates. Very impressive!

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This is typical of the many railroad bridges found in Western Massachusetts. An arch bridge built of brownstone blocks. Many brownstone quarries were active in western New England during the late 1800’s. Stones were shipped to NYC to create the famous brownstone homes on Manhattan’s west side. This bridge spans Pine Nook Rd. in Deerfield, MA. You can see the parked freight train. 

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Holyoke, MA

In 1847, a dam was constructed the Connecticut River at South Hadley Falls. This lead to Americas first planned industrial city. Canals, mills, boarding houses, offices and a dam were all built by pick and shovel. The rapid growth led to the formation of a separate municipality called Holyoke.

The dam is 30 feet high and over 1000 feet long. It is used to supply water to the Holyoke Canals and to generate electricity. 

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I enjoy solving Chris' puzzlers and he e-mailed permision to post in record time.

This one included some of my favoite topics - maps, music trivia, art, and astronomy. So, naturally I did all seven parts.

I guess we have a similar affinity for esoteric facts.

 

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Stop #2 of today's Spring Break tour of the Connecticut coast.

It’s hard to miss this large rock turtle as you drive along the access road into Hammonsett State Park in Madison, CT; even if it were not brightly painted . I stopped to get the digital image of the reptile emerging from winter hibernation. 

St. John’s Episcopal Church in Northampton, MA has several functional gargoyles near the top of the church tower. They are several stories high. Binoculars reveal the details of winged-dragon like figures. 

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The quickest way from Massachusetts to Long Island was over the Throgs Neck Bridge. Since it cost $3.50 each way I might as well log it for all to see. The picture with the GPS on the dashboard was taken southbound. The other pictures northbound a few hours later.

As was mentioned in a previous log, NYC is home to eight very large suspension bridges. The Throgs Neck and its nearby sister bridge the Whitestone cross over Long Island Sound connecting the boroughs of the Bronx and Queens.

There once was a third bridge that shared a similar design feature; the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. We've all seen pictures of that one collapse due to resonance oscillation.

Bridgemeister (visit link) supplied the following information:
'They shared one major similarity - a plate-girder deck presenting a solid face to the wind. This feature led to the quick demise of Tacoma. After it collapsed, the a stiffening truss and four diagonal stays were added to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge to avoid a similar calamity.'




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Amherst, MA is the home of Emily Dickinson, the Belle of Amherst; arguably the most famous American poetess. She is world renowned for her brief, insightful poetry. The house she rarely left and her grave-site are only a few hundred meters apart. Four feet of snow on the ground made finding her grave marker easy. I just followed the footprints in the snow. Since her house is easily found at 280 Main St., I posted the coordinates for the grave marker.

Here is a classic example of her wisdom and style.

It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the stones
At bottom of my mind;

Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less
Than I reviled myself
For entertaining plated wares
Upon my silver shelf.