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Nurtured By Love LbNA #26823 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Oct 29, 2006
Location:
City:Elgin
County:Kane
State:Illinois
Boxes:2
Planted by:The Last Unicorn
Found by: luckyla
Last found:Jul 16, 2016
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaFm
Last edited:Oct 29, 2006
Hawthorn Hill Nature Center
28 Brookside Drive
(near Randall Road and Foothill Road)
Elgin, IL 60123

Oct. 9, 2010 - All boxes available, clues updated.

If traveling west on Route 20, get off at Randall Road. At the stoplight, don’t turn. Go straight onto Foothill Road. Turn left on Brookside Drive, the first street on your left. The entrance to the nature center is on the left.

Estimated time: 45 minutes
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Shinichi Suzuki was an important music teacher. He revolutionized the way children learned to play instruments. In 1967, a Time magazine article said that orchestras would become extinct because stringed instruments were too difficult and required too much practice. Now so many players learn to play as children, orchestras have many talented string players auditioning for a single opening.

Shinichi Suzuki was born on October 17, 1898 in Nagoya Japan. He was a very mischievous boy with lots of extra energy. He was one of 12 children. Shinichi and his brothers used to play in their father’s violin factory and used the violins to swat each other. As a teenager, he discovered violin music and it touched something deep in his soul. He decided to learn how to play the violin.

When he grew up, he performed with his brothers in a quartet and began to teach. He always loved children and wanted to teach them to play. He decided to teach little children to play the violin the same way they learn to speak. The children listen to the music all around them and learn to repeat what they hear. He believed that all children could learn if they were taught well by loving parents and teachers. He asked his father’s violin factory to produce smaller instruments so children as young as 3 years old could learn to play.

The first song he taught the children was “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”. He believed that children should have fun with their music and they played many games. He always had a pocket full of candy and gave it away during lessons. He didn’t teach note reading to the beginning students. When learning to speak, children start learning to read after they can talk and he taught them note reading after they could play many songs. He carefully chose music that would help the children learn. He even wrote some of the songs himself (such as the Twinkle variations, Perpetual Motion, Allegro and Etude).

Suzuki believed that listening to fine music and playing it helped children become sensitive and have beautiful hearts. He hoped the children would help bring understanding and peace to the world. He lived to be 99 years old and died Jan. 26, 1998.
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Dr. Suzuki:
When you arrive, turn right and park in the parking lot. Facing the building, take the paved path on the left and follow it to the back of the building. Walk across the patio to the paved path on the other side. Follow that path until you get to the road (read the signs along the way, you might find them interesting). Cross the road and follow the path to the left of the sign on that side of the road. T the bench, take the left path. Keep following the path until you come to a picnic table. Go over to the sign and, when you are facing it, go on the path to its right. Go 30 steps past the bench to half a tree. There is a log that is running parallel to the path on the left side. Behind the log next to the tree, look under the sticks and bark for the first box.

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star:
From the last box, continue following the path. Take the first path to the left. Keep going until you see a sawed off tree that is almost across the path. There is an obvious X across it. Put your back to the tree and look across the path. Behind the log that is parallel to the path, covered in bark, is the next box.