Reverence in Vermont LbNA #40083 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 24, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | South Burlington |
| County: | Chittenden |
| State: | Vermont |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | onkel-j  |
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| Found by: | Par3 |
| Last found: | Oct 17, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFOFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | May 24, 2008 |
***Alas, recent landscaping work at the site has rendered this box AWOL***
Reverence is a dramatic African black granite sculpture created by Jim Sardonis in 1989 depicting a pair of whales diving into a sea of grass. Visible from interstate 89, it stands to greet visitors to the Burlington area with an unexpected and mysteriously unexplained spectacle. It is located in Technology Park, an industrial park located off of Kimball Avenue in South Burlington that is crisscrossed by a network of mowed walking paths. These paths, and the sculpture itself, are accessible to the public.
These directions describe the shortest route to the letterbox. The total one-way distance is 0.25 miles and is mostly flat.
Make sure to bring your own stamp pad and writing instrument. I recommend royal blue ink for the stamp.
From Kimball Avenue, turn into the west entrance of Technology Park. Continue on Community Avenue for 0.6 miles until you see the entrance to the softball field on the right, marked by several posts in the ground and a sign hanging from a chain that says "Authorized Vehicles Only." Park on the roadside. Look almost due south, and you will see the whale tails in the distance. Follow the path along the right edge of the ball field and continue straight toward the sculpture. Climb the mound on which the tails are mounted, enjoy the view of the Green Mountains to the east and behold the sculpture from close up. Look to the west, and you will see a lone deciduous shrub about 75 meters away that stands apart from the fence lining the interstate corridor. Descend the mound on the path to the west, keeping your eye on the shrub. As you approach it, you will see a sign indicating that there lies the decaying remains of what was once a sit-up station on a fitness circuit. Beneath the sistered wooden planks of the bench lies the letterbox.
Update 7/4/2009 - We found the box still in perfect shape and with lost of great stamps from visitors from all over. I added a second log book, but there's still some room left in book one, so please fill it up before starting the second book.
Reverence is a dramatic African black granite sculpture created by Jim Sardonis in 1989 depicting a pair of whales diving into a sea of grass. Visible from interstate 89, it stands to greet visitors to the Burlington area with an unexpected and mysteriously unexplained spectacle. It is located in Technology Park, an industrial park located off of Kimball Avenue in South Burlington that is crisscrossed by a network of mowed walking paths. These paths, and the sculpture itself, are accessible to the public.
These directions describe the shortest route to the letterbox. The total one-way distance is 0.25 miles and is mostly flat.
B Y O I
Make sure to bring your own stamp pad and writing instrument. I recommend royal blue ink for the stamp.
From Kimball Avenue, turn into the west entrance of Technology Park. Continue on Community Avenue for 0.6 miles until you see the entrance to the softball field on the right, marked by several posts in the ground and a sign hanging from a chain that says "Authorized Vehicles Only." Park on the roadside. Look almost due south, and you will see the whale tails in the distance. Follow the path along the right edge of the ball field and continue straight toward the sculpture. Climb the mound on which the tails are mounted, enjoy the view of the Green Mountains to the east and behold the sculpture from close up. Look to the west, and you will see a lone deciduous shrub about 75 meters away that stands apart from the fence lining the interstate corridor. Descend the mound on the path to the west, keeping your eye on the shrub. As you approach it, you will see a sign indicating that there lies the decaying remains of what was once a sit-up station on a fitness circuit. Beneath the sistered wooden planks of the bench lies the letterbox.
Update 7/4/2009 - We found the box still in perfect shape and with lost of great stamps from visitors from all over. I added a second log book, but there's still some room left in book one, so please fill it up before starting the second book.