Poynter LbNA #13493 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Feb 2, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | St. Petersburg |
| County: | Pinellas |
| State: | Florida |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | C2B2  |
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| Found by: | Vantine |
| Last found: | May 10, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFOFaa |
| Last edited: | Feb 2, 2005 |
Alas, the security guards at the Poynter Institute removed this box. The box was very popular -- I had to change the log and update it. But popularity sometimes is not enough. Poynter suffered much the same fate as the newspaper industry it honored.
Journalists around the world are familiar with 801 Third Street South in St. Petersburg. That is the site of one of the most unique professional training facilities in the world: The Poynter Institute.
The Poynter Institute describes itself as a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists. No matter what their job title may be, journalists come to Poynter in a search for excellence. Here the members of the Fourth Estate train in the finer details of writing, editing, photography, ethics and technology.
This is not a university. It is a legacy. Nelson Poynter, whose name the institute bears, was an intensely committed and spectacularly successful journalist. He built the St. Petersburg Times into a publishing empire that includes Congressional Quarterly, Governing, and Florida Trend magazines.
It was Poynter's determination to keep his publications both excellent and independent that led him to found a non-profit school for journalists, journalism teachers, and journalism students. He willed controlling stock of the Times Publishing Co. to the Institute.
The institute chose renowned architects Jung/Brannen Associates to design a facility using the firms signature care about scale. The architects abandoned the then-popular austerity of glass and steel to create an institute of lasting integrity, craftsmanship and beauty.
And it is among these spectacular hardwood walls, flowered colonnades and peaceful gardens that you will find the Poynter Letterbox.
Start your search with a stroll of the grounds. Memorial garden plots and stone walkways create a quiet, contemplative environment for journalists who usually live in a chaotic, noisy world. Make sure you sit on the bench with Nelson, but as you walk, look down. Stone plaques set into the walks recite quotations from some of the worlds most famous communicators. The plaques themselves are an education in the American view of Free Press.
You are looking for a special pair of plaques. If you find what cannot suppress the truth, all is Wells. But if you read Red on writing, go back one.
Look at Ida’s words. The lines form the image of a pointing hand. Follow the fingers to see a small garden dedicated to those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
Carefully go to that garden, taking care not to damage the plants. Look for the corner where building and garden come together. Like Truth, the Poynter Letterbox is at the foundation of the Institute.
Please take extra care during your search and especially as you replace the box and it’s portrait stamp. The Poynter Institute is fill with the professionally nosey – these are people paid to watch and question what goes on around them. If you, too, are a journalist please place your business card in the bag provided. Even if you are not, send us a note when you find the box. And always log your finds at Letterboxing.org.
Journalists around the world are familiar with 801 Third Street South in St. Petersburg. That is the site of one of the most unique professional training facilities in the world: The Poynter Institute.
The Poynter Institute describes itself as a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists. No matter what their job title may be, journalists come to Poynter in a search for excellence. Here the members of the Fourth Estate train in the finer details of writing, editing, photography, ethics and technology.
This is not a university. It is a legacy. Nelson Poynter, whose name the institute bears, was an intensely committed and spectacularly successful journalist. He built the St. Petersburg Times into a publishing empire that includes Congressional Quarterly, Governing, and Florida Trend magazines.
It was Poynter's determination to keep his publications both excellent and independent that led him to found a non-profit school for journalists, journalism teachers, and journalism students. He willed controlling stock of the Times Publishing Co. to the Institute.
The institute chose renowned architects Jung/Brannen Associates to design a facility using the firms signature care about scale. The architects abandoned the then-popular austerity of glass and steel to create an institute of lasting integrity, craftsmanship and beauty.
And it is among these spectacular hardwood walls, flowered colonnades and peaceful gardens that you will find the Poynter Letterbox.
Start your search with a stroll of the grounds. Memorial garden plots and stone walkways create a quiet, contemplative environment for journalists who usually live in a chaotic, noisy world. Make sure you sit on the bench with Nelson, but as you walk, look down. Stone plaques set into the walks recite quotations from some of the worlds most famous communicators. The plaques themselves are an education in the American view of Free Press.
You are looking for a special pair of plaques. If you find what cannot suppress the truth, all is Wells. But if you read Red on writing, go back one.
Look at Ida’s words. The lines form the image of a pointing hand. Follow the fingers to see a small garden dedicated to those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
Carefully go to that garden, taking care not to damage the plants. Look for the corner where building and garden come together. Like Truth, the Poynter Letterbox is at the foundation of the Institute.
Please take extra care during your search and especially as you replace the box and it’s portrait stamp. The Poynter Institute is fill with the professionally nosey – these are people paid to watch and question what goes on around them. If you, too, are a journalist please place your business card in the bag provided. Even if you are not, send us a note when you find the box. And always log your finds at Letterboxing.org.