Ludwig's Letterbox (Ode to Joy & Happiness!) M LbNA #24039
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 22, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Dallas |
| County: | Dallas |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Viewfinder  |
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| Found by: | Padre Turtle |
| Last found: | Apr 15, 2018 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFaFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Jul 22, 2006 |
Ludwig’s Letterbox (Ode to Joy & Happiness!) – Music Box Series #4
Placed by Viewfinder
This letterbox honors the giant of Romantic composers: Ludwig Van Beethoven. Beethoven (Schroeder’s favorite composer) was, like his music, often stormy and passionate. Even as his growing deafness increasingly cut him off from social interaction and brought him great despair, he produced some of the most heroic and joyous music of the 19th century, including the haunting “Moonlight” sonata, “Emperor” piano concerto, dramatic Fifth Symphony (“dot-dot-dot-dash,” the Morse Code symbol for “V,” adopted by the Allies as a symbol of Victory during WW II); the masterpiece Ninth Symphony (“Ode to Joy,” the anthem of freedom and brotherhood which became associated with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall); and the delightful Sixth Symphony, known as the “Pastoral,” which musically describes a pleasant day in the countryside). He loved long walks in the country, during which his head was probably filled with the glorious sounds of his own music. Ludwig would have loved the Cedar Ridge Nature Preserve in Dallas managed by Audubon Dallas, with its miles of hiking trails through woods and hills with views of Joe Pool Lake below the ridge. While looking for Ludwig’s Letterbox, you might enjoy listening to the 1st movement of the Sixth Symphony, which Beethoven named “Feelings of Happiness on Arriving in the Countryside.”
To find Ludwig’s Letterbox, go to the Cedar Ridge Nature Preserve, south of I 20 on Mountain Creek Parkway (7171 Mountain Creek Parkway, wwwaudubondallas.org). After parking in the lot, find the Bluebonnet Trail (you might want to ask for a map in the Visitors’ Center, but all the trails are clearly identified with trail signs.) This trail begins behind the Visitors Center building. The trail is a 1 mile loop with a lookout tower about half-way around the loop.
When you reach the lookout tower, take 10 paces S (this may be retracing the direction you’ve come from, depending on which way you’re going on the loop). You should see a white rock at the edge of the trail, and, about 5 feet off the trail, a dead tree in a “V” shape, with another white rock at its base. The right side of the “V” is hollow. Resting in this hollow, under a large piece of bark, is Ludwig’s Letterbox. Please recover well!
Now continue on around the rest of the loop and enjoy the trail.
Placed by Viewfinder
This letterbox honors the giant of Romantic composers: Ludwig Van Beethoven. Beethoven (Schroeder’s favorite composer) was, like his music, often stormy and passionate. Even as his growing deafness increasingly cut him off from social interaction and brought him great despair, he produced some of the most heroic and joyous music of the 19th century, including the haunting “Moonlight” sonata, “Emperor” piano concerto, dramatic Fifth Symphony (“dot-dot-dot-dash,” the Morse Code symbol for “V,” adopted by the Allies as a symbol of Victory during WW II); the masterpiece Ninth Symphony (“Ode to Joy,” the anthem of freedom and brotherhood which became associated with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall); and the delightful Sixth Symphony, known as the “Pastoral,” which musically describes a pleasant day in the countryside). He loved long walks in the country, during which his head was probably filled with the glorious sounds of his own music. Ludwig would have loved the Cedar Ridge Nature Preserve in Dallas managed by Audubon Dallas, with its miles of hiking trails through woods and hills with views of Joe Pool Lake below the ridge. While looking for Ludwig’s Letterbox, you might enjoy listening to the 1st movement of the Sixth Symphony, which Beethoven named “Feelings of Happiness on Arriving in the Countryside.”
To find Ludwig’s Letterbox, go to the Cedar Ridge Nature Preserve, south of I 20 on Mountain Creek Parkway (7171 Mountain Creek Parkway, wwwaudubondallas.org). After parking in the lot, find the Bluebonnet Trail (you might want to ask for a map in the Visitors’ Center, but all the trails are clearly identified with trail signs.) This trail begins behind the Visitors Center building. The trail is a 1 mile loop with a lookout tower about half-way around the loop.
When you reach the lookout tower, take 10 paces S (this may be retracing the direction you’ve come from, depending on which way you’re going on the loop). You should see a white rock at the edge of the trail, and, about 5 feet off the trail, a dead tree in a “V” shape, with another white rock at its base. The right side of the “V” is hollow. Resting in this hollow, under a large piece of bark, is Ludwig’s Letterbox. Please recover well!
Now continue on around the rest of the loop and enjoy the trail.