4-H CLOVER LbNA #43371
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 12, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Carmel |
| County: | Putnam |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Karen & K9s  |
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| Found by: | MysticMushroom |
| Last found: | May 1, 2010 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Sep 12, 2008 |
4-H CLOVER
4-H is a wonderful program for 5 to 19 year olds, where kids learn by hands on experience in almost anything they are interested in learning, from animal husbandry to nano-biotechnology, and anything in between. They are guided by adult volunteer leaders ( which I have been for 22 years). This worthwhile program is available in almost every county in every state. If you have kids, please look up your county cooperative extension office. Your children won’t be disappointed, and either will you. It is a phenomenal program.
This simple little clover stamp is carved from an eraser, and this letterbox is dedicated to the Putnam County 4-H fair, and to the 4-H teens who run it. The Putnam County fair has been held at this location every year for 37 years, as of 2008. It prides itself on being a small country fair, which has not been commercialized. It is run entirely by volunteers, and mostly by the 4-H teens, who put in hundreds and hundreds of hours planning, setting up, and running the fair. After living on the fairgrounds before and during the fair, and with very little sleep, these teens then break the fair down when it is over, and clean up the park.
DIRECTIONS: Rte 684 North to Rte 84 West. Get off at exit 19 and make a right on Rte 312. Go to the end and make a right onto Rte 6. Go to the top of the hill to traffic light in front of Reid Memorial Library. Make a right onto Rte 52, and go through the town of Carmel. Make a left onto Rte 301. Take this over the causeway (Carver Bridge), and make an immediate right onto Gypsy Trail Road. Go about one mile and the entrance to the Putnam County Veterans Memorial upper park is on your right.
From the Taconic, get off at Carmel/Cold Spring exit. Follow Rte 301 East for 10 miles. Turn left on Gypsy Trail Road. Follow directions above.
Park your car in front of the gate. The gate is usually locked unless there is an event going on, but the park is open to pedestrians. Visit the memorial to Daniel Nimham, who was chief of the Wappinger Indians, and who fought alongside the patriots to help the colonials win their war for independence. He perished with his warriors in the battle of Kingsbridge, on August 31, 1778. Next to his memorial is a church, which is an authentic reproduction of the Historic Red Mills Baptist Church, built in 1834. It is now the Veterans Memorial Meeting Hall.
TO FIND THE LETTERBOX: Walk up Chapel Lane. It ends in a circle turn around. In front of you will be a large opening in a stone wall, possibly with a chain across it to keep out cars. Walk down the hill to the right of this opening, until you come to the next opening in the wall. Take this path up to the left. Soon you will see a hurdle of logs to your right that are on the beginning of another trail. Take this trail to the right. Go over three hurdles. As soon as you go over the third hurdle, look to your left, to a maple tree with octopus legs. Between the 3rd and fourth legs is hidden the letterbox. The box is covered by rocks and natural debris. Please re-hide this box well with the same rocks. Stuff debris around it so the bag doesn’t show, as this is a well used trail, and it will be easily spotted if not covered up well. You can continue on this trail through a stone wall, where you can make a sharp right onto another trail which will take you back through the wall, heading back in the direction you came. Or you can walk through the stone wall and take the trail to your right, which will take you through another stone wall where you’ll continue right until you come to a “carriageway”. Take this “carriageway“ to your left, and it will lead you back to the turn around. This area is very buggy during the summer months. Watch for poison ivy, which I think should be New York’s state plant. Look for the Good Dog Letterbox. It is very close.
4-H is a wonderful program for 5 to 19 year olds, where kids learn by hands on experience in almost anything they are interested in learning, from animal husbandry to nano-biotechnology, and anything in between. They are guided by adult volunteer leaders ( which I have been for 22 years). This worthwhile program is available in almost every county in every state. If you have kids, please look up your county cooperative extension office. Your children won’t be disappointed, and either will you. It is a phenomenal program.
This simple little clover stamp is carved from an eraser, and this letterbox is dedicated to the Putnam County 4-H fair, and to the 4-H teens who run it. The Putnam County fair has been held at this location every year for 37 years, as of 2008. It prides itself on being a small country fair, which has not been commercialized. It is run entirely by volunteers, and mostly by the 4-H teens, who put in hundreds and hundreds of hours planning, setting up, and running the fair. After living on the fairgrounds before and during the fair, and with very little sleep, these teens then break the fair down when it is over, and clean up the park.
DIRECTIONS: Rte 684 North to Rte 84 West. Get off at exit 19 and make a right on Rte 312. Go to the end and make a right onto Rte 6. Go to the top of the hill to traffic light in front of Reid Memorial Library. Make a right onto Rte 52, and go through the town of Carmel. Make a left onto Rte 301. Take this over the causeway (Carver Bridge), and make an immediate right onto Gypsy Trail Road. Go about one mile and the entrance to the Putnam County Veterans Memorial upper park is on your right.
From the Taconic, get off at Carmel/Cold Spring exit. Follow Rte 301 East for 10 miles. Turn left on Gypsy Trail Road. Follow directions above.
Park your car in front of the gate. The gate is usually locked unless there is an event going on, but the park is open to pedestrians. Visit the memorial to Daniel Nimham, who was chief of the Wappinger Indians, and who fought alongside the patriots to help the colonials win their war for independence. He perished with his warriors in the battle of Kingsbridge, on August 31, 1778. Next to his memorial is a church, which is an authentic reproduction of the Historic Red Mills Baptist Church, built in 1834. It is now the Veterans Memorial Meeting Hall.
TO FIND THE LETTERBOX: Walk up Chapel Lane. It ends in a circle turn around. In front of you will be a large opening in a stone wall, possibly with a chain across it to keep out cars. Walk down the hill to the right of this opening, until you come to the next opening in the wall. Take this path up to the left. Soon you will see a hurdle of logs to your right that are on the beginning of another trail. Take this trail to the right. Go over three hurdles. As soon as you go over the third hurdle, look to your left, to a maple tree with octopus legs. Between the 3rd and fourth legs is hidden the letterbox. The box is covered by rocks and natural debris. Please re-hide this box well with the same rocks. Stuff debris around it so the bag doesn’t show, as this is a well used trail, and it will be easily spotted if not covered up well. You can continue on this trail through a stone wall, where you can make a sharp right onto another trail which will take you back through the wall, heading back in the direction you came. Or you can walk through the stone wall and take the trail to your right, which will take you through another stone wall where you’ll continue right until you come to a “carriageway”. Take this “carriageway“ to your left, and it will lead you back to the turn around. This area is very buggy during the summer months. Watch for poison ivy, which I think should be New York’s state plant. Look for the Good Dog Letterbox. It is very close.