to me suggests the Swedish evangelical lutheran church on 6th st and stewart ave They had their services in the hotel Chateaugay before the church was built. The hotel Chateaugay was located on stewart and lake ave.
that congregation in now 1st lutheran by stellmacher park
Went to matoska park, it has a beach that allows dogs (1st clue) and is on lake ave (3rd clue). I'm going to peek around Lions park next to see if it fits any better. I'm trying to figure out the first part of today's clue, "If you're keeping score, just add eight more" could mean 28 since score = 20. Can't fit the number 28 to matoska though. Give me a ring if anyone is heading out.
may be carved in to the front door of a house across the street from the park ... I'm thinking the main park still...Matoska? where the beach is and the island/drive over area where public isnt allowed but people live.
a certain anniversary would possibly be to remember + to me the 4th of July which is the end of manitou days. the fireworks are fired from memrial beach(west park) over the lake and people go all along lake ave to see fire works.
"It is said that a Sioux maiden fell in love with a Chippewa brave. She, the daughter of the Chief, on learning that her father planned war against the Chippewa, ran to her lover and warned him. The brave went alone into the Sioux village to ask for peace and the hand of the maiden. Before the Chief would agree, the Chippewa would have to do a brave deed.
The lovers usually met on Manitou Island. One day, as the brave approached the Island, anticipating a meeting with his beloved, he saw, to his horror, a great white bear attacking her. He dashed to her rescue. Freed, she ran to get help from her father and the other Sioux. Returning, they saw the brave sink his knife into the bear. But too late, they both fell to the ground dead. Slowly, as they watched, the spirits of the brave and the bear rose from their prone bodies. It is said that even today, as night falls, the spirits of the bear and the brave wander the Island eternally in search of each other."
In the version quoted by Mark Twain in "Life on the Mississippi" 1883, p 399, "…the warrior, with one plunge of the blade of his knife, opened the crimson sluices of death, and the dying bear relaxed his hold. "That night, there was no more sleep for the band or the lovers, and as the young and the old danced about the carcass of the dead monster, the gallant warrior was presented with another plume, and ere another moon had set he had a living treasure added to his heart. Their children for many years played upon the skin of the white bear – from which the lake derives its name, and the maiden and the brave remembered long the fearful scene and rescue that made them one, for Kis-se-me-pa and Ka-go-ga could never forget their fearful encounter with the huge monster that came so near sending them to the happy hunting ground."
The women who found the central park medallion were out today, but they were all over the park. The tall grass/woodsy area behind the gazebo, between the boat launch and the historical marker is pretty massive, so I definitely see this one going a few more clues. The heat is keeping people from looking- those women were the only other people I saw looking today besides me and Mucluck.
I drove by in the afternoon, but didn't see anyone. Saw the women who found it last year pulling into the parking lot. Too hot to mess around in the bushes.
A Pier would be a bride to nowhere!! and or a dock!! if the water level is LOW!! Like I know it is they use to have a dock that went out by the boast launch by the Gazebo!!!
and the dock was always out of the Water!! to dry over there that boat launch is most likely do dry to drop a boat in there now!!
It's just giving us the bridge to Manitou Island. The obvious thing that we shouldn't belabor is the other side of the bridge, since the island is private property.
Its only Private if you can read and also pay attaion but I bet you 50 bucks I can walk right up to the Island and no one can do ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!! And I Will be happy to tell them I can read!! lol!!
Grey Wolf and I were there until 11;15 or so. Saw a dozen or so people looking in all the obvious spots. Also, the hunt has been shorted to 10 clues this year, so tomorrow is the last clue.
I was in White Bear just after lunch avin' a bit of tea with my mum at the Avalon Tea Room and asked for the clues from the locals. They pulled up this site......
People you meet, dogs you greet
At this place you're going to love.
Take flight to a stately site
Behold the giants above.
Step on private land and we'll take a stand
We don't think we're being too picky.
We feel safe to say - without further delay:
Our scheme is really quite sticky.
Call a historian from the period Victorian
One familiar with lodging and prayer.
It happened in the kitchen, a pastor's pitchin'
For the Swedes who gathered there.
Down on the farm you can find lots of charm
A hybrid menagerie you shouldn't spurn.
Creative innovation, create your own combination
Some heads you just may turn.
Call a historian from the period Victorian
One familiar with lodging and prayer.
It happened in the kitchen, a pastorÂ’s pitchinÂ’
For the Swedes who gathered there.
to me suggests the Swedish evangelical lutheran church on 6th st and stewart ave They had their services in the hotel Chateaugay before the church was built. The hotel Chateaugay was located on stewart and lake ave.
that congregation in now 1st lutheran by stellmacher park
http://www.whitebearlake.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B60722C6E-996D-437A-A232-933F840C3F0F%7D
the second part of todays clue looks like an anangram or word rearrangement puzzle. I need your help on that part.
Down on the farm you can find lots of charm
A hybrid menagerie you shouldnÂ’t spurn.
Creative innovation, create your own combination
Some heads you just may turn
reminds me of the merry go round at Como
or cars
futuristic animalistic and colorful
If you're keeping score, just add eight more;
City parks you carefully survey.
It may be an infraction, all of this distraction;
But table your problems for another day.
Pasadena and Duluth, oh supreme sleuth;
Have ones of a busier kind.
Find the link and you'll be on the brink;
Of one incredible find.
A swimming creature is up for feature;
There's a river or sea variety.
Being blunt, it adorns the front;
And crafter deception drives notoriety.
Hey biology teacher, very near this creature;
Stretches the building block of life.
The coin resides near a structure with sides;
Where real treasure hunters are rife.
river turtle or sea turtle
may be carved in to the front door of a house across the street from the park ... I'm thinking the main park still...Matoska? where the beach is and the island/drive over area where public isnt allowed but people live.
Crack out the tin! Find the celebration within
ThereÂ’s a certain anniversary to mark.
Wandering to and fro, you just may need to go
ItÂ’s well worth traveling to a nearby park.
A harperÂ’s song, the whole dale sings along
Words of criticism offend and ignite.
Hypocrites point and she they did disappoint
So she flaunted her skirt in pure spite.
2009 Anniversaries:
50th - Barbie
20th - Fall of Berlin Wall
40th - Apollo 11 Moon Landing
20th - MN Timberwolves
100th - Pearsons Candy
50th - Ski-Doo Snowmobiles
there are historical markers at Matoska and Railroad Park
and the statue of the war dude in the city strip park area near the library
maybe the writer writes the Oakdale AND WBL hunt and got the bear clue mixed up - heh - there is a bear carved from an elm tree in wbl.
A harperÂ’s song, the whole dale sings along
Words of criticism offend and ignite.
Hypocrites point and she they did disappoint
So she flaunted her skirt in pure spite.
What a beast! She was almost his feast
But a remarkable save the boy did achieve.
It happened near here in the old frontier
A dramatic tale that draws locals to believe.
Oh piloting critter, what a baleful sitter
Revenge for a relation who went coiling.
Ever green, not nice but mean
After the scintillating red she was toiling.
But a remarkable save the boy did achieve.
It happened near here in the old frontier
A dramatic tale that draws locals to believe.
Oh piloting critter, what a baleful sitter
Revenge for a relation who went coiling.
Ever green, not nice but mean
After the scintillating red she was toiling.
the first part sounds like the storey of the indian brave who killed the white bear. there is a plaque in matoska park about that.
The lovers usually met on Manitou Island. One day, as the brave approached the Island, anticipating a meeting with his beloved, he saw, to his horror, a great white bear attacking her. He dashed to her rescue. Freed, she ran to get help from her father and the other Sioux. Returning, they saw the brave sink his knife into the bear. But too late, they both fell to the ground dead. Slowly, as they watched, the spirits of the brave and the bear rose from their prone bodies. It is said that even today, as night falls, the spirits of the bear and the brave wander the Island eternally in search of each other."
In the version quoted by Mark Twain in "Life on the Mississippi" 1883, p 399, "…the warrior, with one plunge of the blade of his knife, opened the crimson sluices of death, and the dying bear relaxed his hold. "That night, there was no more sleep for the band or the lovers, and as the young and the old danced about the carcass of the dead monster, the gallant warrior was presented with another plume, and ere another moon had set he had a living treasure added to his heart. Their children for many years played upon the skin of the white bear – from which the lake derives its name, and the maiden and the brave remembered long the fearful scene and rescue that made them one, for Kis-se-me-pa and Ka-go-ga could never forget their fearful encounter with the huge monster that came so near sending them to the happy hunting ground."
so may be near an evergreen tree by something with 4 sides
piloting and coiling? fun words.
I've liked Matoska Park since the first clue about not going on private property on the island.
I just cannot believe someone has not picked it up yet if it were there. I hate wasting a day out there not knowing.
with shovels and tools and implements of destruction
8 sided white gazebo?
I drove by in the afternoon, but didn't see anyone. Saw the women who found it last year pulling into the parking lot. Too hot to mess around in the bushes.
but thought of the gazebo immediately with that clue
I don't recall that park being that big when I've searched there before. hmmmmmm
Awake from your nap, grab a map
On the obvious do not belabor.
Its news did astonish and so we admonish:
Bother not with the sleeping neighbor.
TheyÂ’re built to span - well, thatÂ’s the plan
But sometimes the most famous go nowhere.
Water deplete, ours may just grow obsolete
If we take the lake out of White Bear.
and the dock was always out of the Water!! to dry over there that boat launch is most likely do dry to drop a boat in there now!!
Just to up the Stakes!!!
And that gose for any one who wants to take that BET!!!
When the shadows grow long, you may hear a song
A familiar call that we all hold dear.
ItÂ’s purely Minnesotan, like fishinÂ’ or boatinÂ’
And weÂ’ve got it all right here.
ThereÂ’s a certain gloom, some might even say doom
Shrouding oÂ’er the place of our selection.
The sign will tell that things arenÂ’t looking as well
What exists now is a fond recollection.
2nd part...milfoil sign?
From Dylan’s road, ‘tis not far to the treasure load
Just make a turn at the double one.
The street will end with an abrupt bend
Now the acclaimed lake has begun.
Circular in shape, wrapped thick with tape
Double-sided is way we went.
It was done carefully by hand: rolled in sand
Tucked away well, but not buried, for this event.
I was in White Bear just after lunch avin' a bit of tea with my mum at the Avalon Tea Room and asked for the clues from the locals. They pulled up this site......
The medallion has not been found yet.