National Springfield Series - Homer LbNA #20380
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Feb 5, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Springfield |
| County: | Windsor |
| State: | Vermont |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Parrothead  |
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| Found by: | narocks |
| Last found: | Oct 2, 2020 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Feb 5, 2006 |
**5/2/08 This box has been archived. It was reported missing and this was confirmed on 5/1/08**
According to Wikipedia, you can find a "Springfield" in 34 of the 50 states. This series is being created to honor all of the "Springfields" in the U.S. with some of their most famous (?) residents.... the Simpsons, of course!
C'mon, kids - collect 'em all!
This letterbox is in Springfield, VT.
Everyone knows the Simpson's next door neighbor is Ned Flanders. However, what you may not know is that Ned's Great-Great Aunt Helen Harness Flanders lived in Springfield, VT!
Helen Hartness Flanders was born in Springfield, Vermont, in 1890. She lived in Springfield all her life and was active in the community’s arts programs. She was appointed by the Governor of VT to the Committee on Traditions and Ideals. Her assignment was to find out what songs Vermonters had learned by oral tradition. This assignment blossomed into the largest archive of folk music and folklore from the northeastern states. The approximately nine thousand items amassed between 1930 and 1960—including field recordings, manuscripts, song texts, broadsides, and hundreds of books relating to collections and studies about songs of Anglo-American, Canadian, and European origins—contain valuable and sometimes surprising information about the region and our forefathers.
To find the letterbox, first find the Hartness House in Springfield, VT. Go behind the house, past the stone tea house and look for steps leading up to the nature trails. Follow the trail until you come to a charming stone bridge at a place called "Fern Hollow".
Cross the bridge and follow the trail up just a few more steps until you see a beech tree carved with initials. Look to the left and you will see a small rock wall. At a convenient place to cross over the wall, you will see a white, round, quartz rock. Next to that rock, you'll find Homer, snugly tucked into the wall.
(Information about Helen Hartness Flanders from New York Folklore Society… except the part about the relationship with Ned. I made that up.)
According to Wikipedia, you can find a "Springfield" in 34 of the 50 states. This series is being created to honor all of the "Springfields" in the U.S. with some of their most famous (?) residents.... the Simpsons, of course!
C'mon, kids - collect 'em all!
This letterbox is in Springfield, VT.
Everyone knows the Simpson's next door neighbor is Ned Flanders. However, what you may not know is that Ned's Great-Great Aunt Helen Harness Flanders lived in Springfield, VT!
Helen Hartness Flanders was born in Springfield, Vermont, in 1890. She lived in Springfield all her life and was active in the community’s arts programs. She was appointed by the Governor of VT to the Committee on Traditions and Ideals. Her assignment was to find out what songs Vermonters had learned by oral tradition. This assignment blossomed into the largest archive of folk music and folklore from the northeastern states. The approximately nine thousand items amassed between 1930 and 1960—including field recordings, manuscripts, song texts, broadsides, and hundreds of books relating to collections and studies about songs of Anglo-American, Canadian, and European origins—contain valuable and sometimes surprising information about the region and our forefathers.
To find the letterbox, first find the Hartness House in Springfield, VT. Go behind the house, past the stone tea house and look for steps leading up to the nature trails. Follow the trail until you come to a charming stone bridge at a place called "Fern Hollow".
Cross the bridge and follow the trail up just a few more steps until you see a beech tree carved with initials. Look to the left and you will see a small rock wall. At a convenient place to cross over the wall, you will see a white, round, quartz rock. Next to that rock, you'll find Homer, snugly tucked into the wall.
(Information about Helen Hartness Flanders from New York Folklore Society… except the part about the relationship with Ned. I made that up.)