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Archimedes' Letterbox LbNA #19230

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Nov 13, 2005
Location:
City:West Yarmouth
County:Barnstable
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Planted by:ArchimedesScrew
Found by: FelixPezGirl
Last found:Nov 14, 2013
Status:FFFFFFFFFaFaFFFFFFFa
Last edited:Nov 13, 2005
The original Archimedes went missing and has been replaced in a different location on April 22, 2007. This stamp is the same as the one from the Creative Carvers of Massachusetts Postal.

After almost a year of letterboxing, I thought it was time to honor my letterboxing namesake.

Directions to Sandy Pond:

From Route 6, take Exit 7. From either direction, you will take a left at the off-ramp. Look for Higgins Crowell Road on the left. It is the 2nd left after the ramp and is marked by a sign that says "W Yarmouth Bass River". Take Higgins Crowell and follow it until you come to the first set of lights. There is a roundabout along the way, you take the first right to stay on the road. At the lights, take a right onto Buck Island Road. Look for Sandy Pond Recreation Area on the right. *Drive past the baseball field, bear a left and park near Sandy Pond or park near the playground. The life course is a nice little walk, but going in the back way that comes out at the playground will take you by Mr. Potato Head and the Yawning Tree.

*Lately, the gate has been locked in the park. You can park at the lot to the left and walk to the playground or pond and start there.

On the life course, find number 6 (it's not 9 even if the sign is sideways on the ground.) You can sit on the bench here and look at the water tower. Think about how Archimedes first thought of getting water to the masses with his water screw invention (maybe his invention, there is some debate on that.) There is no debate that the father of integral calculus was a brilliant, thoughtful man and he surely would have thought to walk under 11 feet and take the faint path to the second, large path. He would have kept his back to the faint path and looked towards the left for a 7-trunked tree upon which another has fallen. Archimedes surely would have followed that fallen tree and searched under the bark by the trunk. I'm sure with his curious nature, he would have been delighted with what he found.

There are two more of our boxes on this same course, Toy Box #2: Mr. Potato Head and The Yawning Tree. I know, it's getting crowded.