Near Flanders Field LbNA #40963
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Add Location| Owner: | HappyGolden  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 17, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Rocky Hill |
| County: | Hartford |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Mama Staggs |
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| Last found: | May 21, 2020 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFOFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jun 17, 2008 |
This letterbox is at Rocky Hill’s Center Cemetery. It is across from CVS on Route 99.
Each year at the end of the Rocky Hill Memorial Day parade, a ceremony is held on the Town Green, where a fifth grader from Rocky Hill reads the poem below.
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
To find the box:
With the Town Green and CVS to your back.
Enter through the creaky gate.
Walk 17 steps Southeast to a Backe.
Continuing South where Lousia Sleeps, find a resting Lucy.
At Walter’s tower, turn right.
Walk Southwest through the sleeping Burnell family
From here head South to where tall tomb stones are tight.
Find Henry Bulkley shaking hands.
Walk South past the tall gravestone of one who died at 2 years, 4 months.
Turn East down the gravel path.
Go past the Robbins mound.
Head South towards Williams with a backwards Minnie nearby.
Continue South across the gravel road to Libera’s angel cross.
Walk West past two crosses.
Turn North and reach under Forand’s bush.
Good Luck!
~HappyGolden~
Each year at the end of the Rocky Hill Memorial Day parade, a ceremony is held on the Town Green, where a fifth grader from Rocky Hill reads the poem below.
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
To find the box:
With the Town Green and CVS to your back.
Enter through the creaky gate.
Walk 17 steps Southeast to a Backe.
Continuing South where Lousia Sleeps, find a resting Lucy.
At Walter’s tower, turn right.
Walk Southwest through the sleeping Burnell family
From here head South to where tall tomb stones are tight.
Find Henry Bulkley shaking hands.
Walk South past the tall gravestone of one who died at 2 years, 4 months.
Turn East down the gravel path.
Go past the Robbins mound.
Head South towards Williams with a backwards Minnie nearby.
Continue South across the gravel road to Libera’s angel cross.
Walk West past two crosses.
Turn North and reach under Forand’s bush.
Good Luck!
~HappyGolden~