Native Son #2, Robert Cormier LbNA #1131
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Add Location| Owner: | the lazy letterboxer  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 8, 2001 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Leominster |
| County: | Worcester |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | J.E.S.S. |
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| Last found: | Feb 17, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFaFaFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 8, 2001 |
Letterbox Cormier (Native Son #2, 1925-2000)
DUE TO EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THIS AREA FROM THE ICE STORM OF 2008 THESE CLUES ARE NO LONGER ACCURATE. THE ENTIRE STAND OF PINE TREES WAS DECIMATED BY THE ICE STORM.
This hike takes approximately an hour plus stamp in time.
Enter the trail from the Wachusett Street entrance. Wachusett Street is south of Leominster center at the junction of Union and Pleasant Streets. You can park along the side of the road. Enter where the sign reads Monoosnoc Ridge Trail (approximately 4/10's of a mile from the beginning of Wachusett Street). The trail is very well marked. The beginning of the trail is an uphill climb. Following the winding trail as it takes you through a forest of mixed trees. Suddenly you will come to an impressive stand of tall pine trees which you will pass directly through. Stay on the trail and enjoy the beauty of these trees which were planted by the WPA during the Depression. After you pass through the trail continues, sometimes uphill and sometimes downhill. Be on the lookout for a rock on the right with an orange F (for fire road) painted on it. Across from this rock, on the left is another rock with a green F painted on it. Very shortly ahead on the right you will see a large pine tree with a blue blaze. Stop and look off the path for a stone wall on the right. Walk about 8 paces off the trail and look behind the wall for a nook that is sheltered by a loose stone. Carefully remove the stone and find native son Robert Cormier, award winning author and journalist and the pride and joy of French Hill!
DUE TO EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THIS AREA FROM THE ICE STORM OF 2008 THESE CLUES ARE NO LONGER ACCURATE. THE ENTIRE STAND OF PINE TREES WAS DECIMATED BY THE ICE STORM.
This hike takes approximately an hour plus stamp in time.
Enter the trail from the Wachusett Street entrance. Wachusett Street is south of Leominster center at the junction of Union and Pleasant Streets. You can park along the side of the road. Enter where the sign reads Monoosnoc Ridge Trail (approximately 4/10's of a mile from the beginning of Wachusett Street). The trail is very well marked. The beginning of the trail is an uphill climb. Following the winding trail as it takes you through a forest of mixed trees. Suddenly you will come to an impressive stand of tall pine trees which you will pass directly through. Stay on the trail and enjoy the beauty of these trees which were planted by the WPA during the Depression. After you pass through the trail continues, sometimes uphill and sometimes downhill. Be on the lookout for a rock on the right with an orange F (for fire road) painted on it. Across from this rock, on the left is another rock with a green F painted on it. Very shortly ahead on the right you will see a large pine tree with a blue blaze. Stop and look off the path for a stone wall on the right. Walk about 8 paces off the trail and look behind the wall for a nook that is sheltered by a loose stone. Carefully remove the stone and find native son Robert Cormier, award winning author and journalist and the pride and joy of French Hill!