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"To Kill a Mockingbird" LbNA #30688 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 5, 2007
Location:
City:Millersburg
County:Rice
State:Minnesota
Boxes:1
Planted by:sky
Found by: Trekkin' and Birdin'
Last found:Mar 20, 2009
Status:FFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:May 5, 2007
(Most recent find: 5/18/2009)
Advisory: wear blaze orange during the hunting season.


A 12-minute walk from the parking lot through a remnant of the Big
Woods.

The Series

This is the fourth in a series of letterboxes which replicate the hides
in Academy Award winning movies. This is actually a
geocache/letterbox hybrid. They differ mainly in that the geocache
description
includes the coordinates of the location rather than verbal directions. (So if you have a GPS unit it can be used as a check. Also the geocache logs are more likely to give you a better indication of how recently it has been found.)


Synopsis

Harper Lee's semi-biographical novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird",won
the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 and has since become a modern classic. The
movie through the use of a narrator preserves much of the book's literary
value. It's a story of two innocent, but inquisitive, children,
7-year-old Scout (Mary Badham) and her 10-year old brother, Jem,
growing up in the South; it's also a story about the South, as well
as the nation, growing up for that matter. The children's lawyer
father, Atticus (Gregory Peck) is defending a black man against
false charges. The children become much more enmeshed in the case
than the father desires.


The Hide

A hiding place is the main means of communication
between the children and their backward, heliophobic neighbor Boo.
Ultimately the developing friendship saves their lives.


Directions:

Take Exit 66 from I35 towards Millersburg. At about a-half mile you'll come to Bagley Rd. Turn South. You'll soon see a shallow pond on the right and beehives on the left. After about a mile you'll cross 120th Street. Continue about 0.4 mile to the parking lot for "Big Woods Heritage Forest" on the left. Park there.

On the NE corner of the lot there will be a trail which heads east. Follow it keeping the old growth on your left and the reforestation on your right. You'll go east for about 500', south for 100', and then east again. Just as the trail would go south again you'll find an old overgrown road headed north into the woods. Follow it. It'll go up a slight rise and then down into a potentially muddy area and over two logs. After 500' or so on the "road", you'll find an overgrown lane which intersects the overgrown road. To the NE of the intersection, there should be a tree with a small hole in it about 10' above the ground. Follow the lane as it curves towards the southeast for 50 paces. There will be a multi-trunked tree to your right. About 15 more paces beyond that tree you should spot Boo's hiding place.

Academy Awards 1963



  • Gregory Peck won the Oscar for Best Actor

  • Won the Oscar for Best Screenplay

  • Won the Oscar for Best Art Direction - Black and White

  • Mary Badham was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, the
    youngest person ever to be nominated for this award

  • Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best
    Cinematography, and Best Music.

FF 5/20/07 by MN Treasure Finders