Sleuthing for a C-Note LbNA #53575 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | the lazy letterboxer  |
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| Plant date: | May 21, 2010 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Leominster |
| County: | Worcester |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | May 21, 2010 |
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a traditional letterbox! It is the final clue for the Leominster Public Library Scavenger Hunt. PLEASE DO NOT attempt to find this box unless you are taking part in the scavenger hunt!!
Sleuthing for a C-Note: the Great Carnegie Scavenger Hunt
Beginning in 1872 through 1904, two Leominster women, Frances Howe and Fannie Allen would take a summer or fall journey each year in a horse-drawn carriage. Their carriage was well-equipped, with a lunch basket, wraps, books and writing materials, a traveling bag each, an emergency box containing a wrench, a bottle of oil and strong cord, a map, and a revolver. The revolver, wrote Frances, was “…the only thing we take which we never use.”
Miss Howe and Miss Allen never had a specific destination in mind when they started out; they might have had a general idea of a direction in which to head, but, as Frances wrote, “our journeys take themselves.” Their itinerary over 32 years included the Connecticut River, visiting Lake Winnepesaukee and the Isles of Shoals, Newport, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Boston and its suburbs, the Berkshires, the Hudson River, the Green Mountains, the New Hampshire seacoast, Vermont, Canada, Maine, including Sebago Lake, Old Orchard Beach and Bar Harbor, the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and Rhode Island’s Narragansett Pier.
Newspaper columns about the ladies’ travels appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript and the Leominster Daily Enterprise; in 1906 Francis Howe’s book entitled “14,000 Miles, A Carriage and Two Women” was published.
The only copies of Frances Howe’s book owned by the library are locked in the library’s local history collection. Since that area of the library is kept locked, the letterboxers can find a facsimile in the 917 area, which is where travel books for this part of the world are located.
Sleuthing for a C-Note: the Great Carnegie Scavenger Hunt
Beginning in 1872 through 1904, two Leominster women, Frances Howe and Fannie Allen would take a summer or fall journey each year in a horse-drawn carriage. Their carriage was well-equipped, with a lunch basket, wraps, books and writing materials, a traveling bag each, an emergency box containing a wrench, a bottle of oil and strong cord, a map, and a revolver. The revolver, wrote Frances, was “…the only thing we take which we never use.”
Miss Howe and Miss Allen never had a specific destination in mind when they started out; they might have had a general idea of a direction in which to head, but, as Frances wrote, “our journeys take themselves.” Their itinerary over 32 years included the Connecticut River, visiting Lake Winnepesaukee and the Isles of Shoals, Newport, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Boston and its suburbs, the Berkshires, the Hudson River, the Green Mountains, the New Hampshire seacoast, Vermont, Canada, Maine, including Sebago Lake, Old Orchard Beach and Bar Harbor, the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and Rhode Island’s Narragansett Pier.
Newspaper columns about the ladies’ travels appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript and the Leominster Daily Enterprise; in 1906 Francis Howe’s book entitled “14,000 Miles, A Carriage and Two Women” was published.
The only copies of Frances Howe’s book owned by the library are locked in the library’s local history collection. Since that area of the library is kept locked, the letterboxers can find a facsimile in the 917 area, which is where travel books for this part of the world are located.