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GWP Series: Oh Give Me a Home LbNA #33565

Owner:BarefootLucy
Plant date:Jul 29, 2007
Location:
City:Seagoville
County:Dallas
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Found by: Donella and Carol
Last found:Sep 12, 2016
Status:FFF
Last edited:Jul 29, 2007
The GWP Series is a group of boxes that were originally placed on George W Pirtle Scout Reservation, Home Sweet Home Away From Home to many East Texas scouts and scouters! The boxes were planted for the East Texas Area Council Three Rivers District/Caddo District Dad and Lad event held in April 2007. Boys and Dads learned how to treasure hunt like letterboxers!

After the event, the boxes were retrieved and are being placed around Texas. I am leaving the Cub Scout stamps in the backs of the logbooks so that letterboxers can see the cool stamps the boys used - all unique and hand carved by boxers and scouters. I've added pages in the fronts of the logbooks for letterboxer entries.

As a "first to Re-find" prize, I've included a Cub Scout patch from my collection of patches in each box. Some of them are patches I've designed for various events, some are designed by others. Some are BSA official designs, but they are all pretty cool!

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Oh Give Me a Home - what a woeful, lonely song! I always imagine it to be sung by someone who is unable to get themselves to the sort of place they sing about.

This box is planted in C O Bruce Central Park in Seagoville. It is a lovely little park situated next to Seagoville Federal Correctional Institution, a minimum security prison, but don't let that put you off! As we were enjoying the pond and feeding the ducks, a girls' softball team showed up at the baseball diamond at the back of the park and began practicing. It seems this is a very active, yet peaceful little park!

Boy Scouting has a remarkably low crime commission rate amongst adults who were BSA members for any significant length of time during their childhoods. Many prison wardens throw themselves firmly behind scouting as a way to deter young boys from following the wrong path and winding up as residents of their prisons. In fact, one warden once told me that when he interviewed inmates as they entered his prison, he invariably asks them "what sorts of programs were you in as a youth?" He says he has never had an inmate respond that he was a boy scout. Let us hope that any scout (or other boxer, for that matter!) that visits this box never gets any closer to a prison than he is during this visit.

To get to the park:

From Dallas: Take Highway 175 South to Seagoville and take the first exit for Seagoville. Stay on the access road until you come to the prison. Turn right at the very next road after the prison and turn into the park (you will see the pond with a fountain from the road). Park in the parking area closest to the prison, then get out and take the concrete path around the pond (take something to feed the ducks), walking to the right and keeping the pond to your left.

Spot the area across the lake with a large tree overlooking the lake. That's the general area you are shooting toward. HOWEVER, stay on the path. As you are about to make the turn to go along the side of the pond across from the parking area, look straight ahead to the fence line for a large tree with spreading branches and oddly shaped roots. Walk to that tree and snuggle up to it, looking on its backside at about eye level. The box is placed in a hole in the tree on the far side of it, away from view.

When you return the box, please return it camo tape out to minimize risk of it being seen. Also, please be cautious accessing this one, as I'm sure there are probably cameras in the park and anyone acting TOO suspiciously would draw attention to the box.