What lies beneath. LbNA #21169 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Apr 1, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Ware |
| County: | Hampshire |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Kings of the Hills
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| Found by: | The Rednecks |
| Last found: | Jul 4, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Oct 1, 2015 |
DIFFICULTY: Easy
TERRAIN: Flat and grassy. Can be accessed with strollers or wheelchairs except to remove the box from it’s hiding place.Growing up, my family had a morbid sense of adventure. We would all love to watch Creature Double Feature on Saturday nights, go see scary movies like the Omen at the Casino Movie Theater in Ware, and visit the Quabbin Cemetary to do gravestone rubbings. While completing this letterbox you will visit and pay your respects to a few of the gravestones, but there is one gravestone in particuliar that has always brought me back to view. You’ll know it when you see it and why I find it so intriguing. You also may want to bring paper and charcoal and do a gravestone rubbing of your own.
After saluting General William Lincoln Post, head to the left of the War Memorial, on Quabbin Drive. Don’t be afraid to explore some of the old gravestones. Although these stones are weathered and aging some of them are still readable and have interesting epitaphs.
Continue walking down Quabbin Drive until you get to Oak Way. Turn left at Oak Way and follow the road staying on the left hand side. Look for two small graves with the markings “Gretta” and “Baby Billy”. Although sad, there is always a reason. When God calls little children to dwell with him above,
We mortals sometimes question the wisdom of his love.
For no heartache compares with the death of a small child,
Who does so much to make our world seem wonderful and mild.
Perhaps God tires of calling the aged to his fold,
So he picks a rosebud, before it can grow old.
God knows how much we need them, and so he takes but few,
To make the land of heaven more beautiful to veiw.
Beleiving this is difficult, still somehow we must try.
The saddest word mankind knows will always be "goodbye".
So when a little child departs, we who are left behind.
Must realize God loves children,
Angels are hard to find.
Continue down the way and take a left onto Pine Ridge where you will find the Underwood Family on your left. Offer your greetings and continue on down to the cul-de-sac. At the end of the cul-de-sac you should find the gravestone of Hubert Griffin. Pass Hubert and continue up the hill. As you reach the top look off to the right and you will see a lonely knoll with a single gravestone residing. Look carefully because it sits perfectly that you almost can’t see it. Go to the lone gravestone and you will find the mortal remains of Seth Blanchard who departed this world on October 2, 1811. Make sure that you read Seth’s poem at the bottom of his stone. You will remember it forever. After reading, stand with your back to the stone, facing back towards the cul-de-sac. You’ll see a large pine directly in front and to the right of you with a wooded basin below. Walking on the edge of the grass with the basin below to the right, walk 30 paces.
TERRAIN: Flat and grassy. Can be accessed with strollers or wheelchairs except to remove the box from it’s hiding place.
From Route 9 East or West enter the Quabbin Park Cemetary. At the intersection of Sunset Road and Quabbin Drive you will see a Civil War Memorial. Park anywhere in this area.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where grapes of wrath are stored;
he hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on.
After saluting General William Lincoln Post, head to the left of the War Memorial, on Quabbin Drive. Don’t be afraid to explore some of the old gravestones. Although these stones are weathered and aging some of them are still readable and have interesting epitaphs.
Continue walking down Quabbin Drive until you get to Oak Way. Turn left at Oak Way and follow the road staying on the left hand side. Look for two small graves with the markings “Gretta” and “Baby Billy”. Although sad, there is always a reason.
We mortals sometimes question the wisdom of his love.
For no heartache compares with the death of a small child,
Who does so much to make our world seem wonderful and mild.
Perhaps God tires of calling the aged to his fold,
So he picks a rosebud, before it can grow old.
God knows how much we need them, and so he takes but few,
To make the land of heaven more beautiful to veiw.
Beleiving this is difficult, still somehow we must try.
The saddest word mankind knows will always be "goodbye".
So when a little child departs, we who are left behind.
Must realize God loves children,
Angels are hard to find.
Continue down the way and take a left onto Pine Ridge where you will find the Underwood Family on your left. Offer your greetings and continue on down to the cul-de-sac. At the end of the cul-de-sac you should find the gravestone of Hubert Griffin. Pass Hubert and continue up the hill. As you reach the top look off to the right and you will see a lonely knoll with a single gravestone residing. Look carefully because it sits perfectly that you almost can’t see it. Go to the lone gravestone and you will find the mortal remains of Seth Blanchard who departed this world on October 2, 1811. Make sure that you read Seth’s poem at the bottom of his stone. You will remember it forever. After reading, stand with your back to the stone, facing back towards the cul-de-sac. You’ll see a large pine directly in front and to the right of you with a wooded basin below. Walking on the edge of the grass with the basin below to the right, walk 30 paces.
Look for the log to your right.
Leaves have blocked it from your sight.
It’s ever so close as you soon will see,
Prepare your stamp and follow me.