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2010 - Lilydale Regional Park

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Discuss the 2010 Medallion Hunt Here 

13th Annual Rehash Bash and Other End of the Winter Carnival Festivities 

Sunday, January 31, 2010 
Newell Park Pavilion 
900 N. Fairview Ave. 
Saint Paul, MN 55104 
11:30am-2:30pm 

The 13th Annual Rehash Bash will be held on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at Newell Park, from 11:30am to 2:30pm. As always, its a potluck, and since we\'ve got the building, there will be plenty of power indoors for crock pots. Donations will be accepted to cover the $136 cost for renting the facility. MrMnMikey has some door prizes available. Since this isn\'t Super Bowl Sunday this year, if people want to stick around past the 2:30 closing time, we can start a fire in one of the fire rings. 

In addition, many of us long-time Coolerheads are loyal servants of Vulcanus Rex. Join us for the Vulcan Victory Torchlight Parade, followed by the Vulcan Victory Dance. Information on the Parade Route is from the 2006 Vulcan Krewe. The best places for viewing the parade are going to be at the end of the parade route, as His Majesty, Vulcanus Rex LXXIII, the true King of the Winter Carnival, overthrows that other guy on the steps of the St. Paul Central Library, across from Rice Park 

 

Conference Call Info for Clue 11:

There was no conference call scheduled for clue 10.


 

  • Phone Number: 1-517-417-5000
  • Pass code: 859597 (clue 12 may be different
  • Everyone will be muted initially
  • Lines open at 11pm
  • lilslim will read the clue twice from start to finish
  • After the clue has been read, she will unmute the call
  • 60 ports are available for the teleconference



Line Placeholder Schedule 

1/26/2010- 
5-6 Redbear 
6-7 Jake 
7-8 Jerilyn 
8-9 Kathy 
9-10 Mikey 
10-Clue Steph 

1/27/2010- 
12-1 Redbear 
1-2 Andrea 
2-3 Nimrod 
3-4 jengerm 
4-5 Barefootguy 
5-6 Wicked Nick 
6-7 Chris Digger 
7-8 Art V 
8-9 CM & Me2 
9-Clue Sara 

 

 
First Video - The Deed is Done 

When January’s slanting snow, 
Makes us dream of Mexico 
St. Paul emerges from Wintery sleep 
To search for treasure buried deep 

Notice to every hunting battalion, 
We have hidden the Pioneer Press Medallion 
Where? You ask in husky shout, 
That’s for us to know, and you to find out 

Turn off the tube, leave your hovel 
Grab your walking stick and shovel, 
Whether you be giant or runt, 
The only way is to join the hunt 

For to the hunter belongs the spoil, 
Hunt by day, or Midnight oil, 
Hunt in boot and sturdy glove, 
Hunt with pal, or old true love 

For you who hunt each and every year, 
We raise a lusty St. Paul cheer 
“Good Luck” 

And now, let us be blunt, 
Get off thy duff, and hunt, hunt, hunt
Clue #1 

All hail, O Fire King, of thee we sing 
Thy blast of winter heat scorches 
When ice was like concrete it would\'ve been so sweet 
If the Vulcans plowed with their torches 

Emerge from the den as we once again 
Offer a bodacious bounty 
And this tip to the frozen: bring thick lederhosen 
To public land in Ramsey County 

Clue #1 Video

Hear ye all crews, now come the clues 
For this task I am the Czar 
With each rhyming gift, this shape I will shift 
Listen well to each avatar
Clue #2 

Kissed by a Vulcan, she left him sulkin\' 
\"Sir Soot, I\'ll not forgive these sins!\" 
Her airs Elizabethan, her language, bleepin\' heathen, 
Our mother once blessed us with twins.
Clue #3 

Look high, look low, wherever you go 
Follow a picturesque route 
There are ways to travel away from the gravel 
That keep you in hot pursuit
Clue #4 

Code by Morse should set your course 
To long dashes that dot the landscape. 
You or your avatar should park your car 
On your way to this great escape.
Clue #5 

Take a westerly tack up from the stack, 
A landmark most uncouth. 
Figures grand in scale point to a trail 
Of footprints left by our sleuth.
Clue #6 

You\'ll want to go shopping where things are hopping 
And storeowners once dropped anchor 
Go down the main drag, but be sure not to lag, 
You\'ll have plenty for which to thank her
Clue #7 

Escape your troubles where the water bubbles 
Or gurgles like a stream. 
You may be chargin\' right up to the margin. 
Look for a productive seam.
Clue #8 

Down on the delta where there\'s no ice to melta 
The purple horde raids a golden legion 
Today before kick off the prize you\'ll pick off 
If you search in just the right region 

To find the seed, energy you need 
In search for your clues to glean 
What once was planted is taken for granted 
Stored in one of fifteen
Clue #9 

Not far from stones and ancient bones 
Lay clues that are fit for Jim 
Lure the egrets to yield all secrets 
And you should satisfy him 

Get your kicks by hitting the bricks 
Admiring the trees and view 
Be ever glad hopping pad to pad 
Like amphibians in\'52
Clue #10 

Stonehenge tumbled down near a crumbled town 
Not far from the lights of the city 
If you would hike away from the pike 
You might stumble on something pretty 

Upstream from the landing lay a place in good standing 
Where people prayed, God willin\' 
Now midst the cocklebur and rusted spur 
Is nothing by murder and killin\' 

This park is a sliver, from ancient beds to a river 
In neither is the prize to be found 
Look for the goods among timber and woods 
Do not dig in the fossil ground
Clue #11 

Go for a lark in Lilydale Park 
Between Water Street and the river 
The city boundary sign and the old rail line 
Define the zone that will deliver 

You\'re outside the pale if you\'re close to the rail 
It\'s not to be found near the tracks 
Be nice and cooperative, respect private property 
On public land launch your attacks 

Within this area lies medallion hysteria 
A tangle near the river - not too close! 
About four dozen paces from the waterline to places 
Where you should tromp, dig and freeze your nose
 



 

katsmeow

Those would be my Twins the J sisters as I call them cause I can never tell them apart unless they are together... :sheepish:

They are Tax Collectors with me and volunteers in every aspect of carnival that you can think of. Tons of fun!
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:14 PM Permalink
ares

could be the color of whatever the puck is hidden in. even the way the clue reads, very elizabethan in its style, using i'll not" in lieu of "i won'a". actually its more from the post-elizabethan eras of james and charles (why do i know so much about the british monarchy during that period of time????) from whom the king james bible was created. not coincidentally, while the northern part of the country lost the britishness in their accent (new yorkers "pahk the cah", bostonians "warsh the dishes"), it stuck around in the south, evolving into the accent associated with the southern gentry (as opposed to the southern rednecks). even without hearing the clue, i'd have associated that line with proper southern/british language, just because of the choice of contraction used.
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:17 PM Permalink
ares

if i say you did it, and you say i did it, that's gotta be enough for reasonable doubt. that or if we both confess to it.

oooh. personal joe!
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:18 PM Permalink
OT

I saw them a couple of years ago judging the sculptures in Rice Park. Love their Hudson Bay coats!
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:22 PM Permalink
ry

Could away from the gravel mean away from a playground? I think playgrounds are the most apparent source of gravel in parks.
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:26 PM Permalink
Mad_Dach5und

Someone tell Cluey he need to update his avatar - that chick really freaks me out.
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:26 PM Permalink
Mad_Dach5und

Follow a Pitcher-esque route

Twins

Off the Gravel

Thick lederhosen = Hockey Pants

Sorry - still stuck on the idea of Hockey ice on top of a Baseball infield

Even if I am correct and this is a reference to Battle Creek Rec, God help us - that only narrows it down to about 1/2 the park land in the County
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:29 PM Permalink
Downtown Dave

Indeed they do. I've spotted the spotters.
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:31 PM Permalink
queenmalley

Avatars are usually your "alter-ego" or someone you aren't but would like to be. One of the video clues states "Listen well to each avatar"

Thus, those creepy creatures are the opposite of what hey really are and may contain a clue. But what could they be opposite of? Such as the movie Avatar when the solider who lost his legs could walk and run in Pandora, and the Science gal was young and pretty in Pandora. Another cool avatar movie was out this summer, and more along that opposite thing: always young, pretty, buff, etc. you can even change your race, etc.

I also can't help but think Cool Crewers have "avatars" we go by other names, don't usually show our photos, so maybe it's a play on coller crew...?
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:35 PM Permalink
queenmalley

  • Cooler Crewers...
  • Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:36 PM Permalink
    Randahl

    ok - i may be smoked up more than a stoner here but.........

    hear me out......

    Clue #1

    All hail, O Fire King, of thee we sing

    Thy blast of winter heat scorches

    When ice was like concrete it would've been so sweet

    If the Vulcans plowed with their torches - CROSBY WAS A FARM

    Emerge from the den as we once again - CROSBY HAS HELD PUCK PRIOR

    Offer a bodacious bounty

    And this tip to the frozen: bring thick lederhosen

    To public land in Ramsey County

    Clue #2

    Kissed by a Vulcan, she left him sulkin'

    "Sir Soot, I'll not forgive these sins!"

    Her airs Elizabethan, her language, bleepin' heathen,

    Our mother once blessed us with twins.

    melissa ethridge is the bleepin heathen - who has had partners who have had kids with crosby's sperm - ethridges current partner has twins by "annonymous" donor who is again rumored to be crosby...

    Clue #3

    Look high, look low, wherever you go

    Follow a picturesque route

    There are ways to travel away from the gravel - CROSBY HAS SEVERAL GRAVEL TRAILS

    That keep you in hot pursuit

    THOUGHTS?
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:37 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    That movie this summer about avatars was "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis. Cool movie.

    The social media avatar world is "Second Life." I had to join for a class of mine, we actually "met" in a Virtual World with our professor. Weird way to have a class, but fun.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:41 PM Permalink
    Eags

    That would fit with the shapeshifter line in the intro to the first clue.

    I wonder if we'll get a doppelganger or a vampire in one of the videos?
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:42 PM Permalink
    ares

    randy, i really like the farm analogy in that. everything else makes sense too!
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:45 PM Permalink
    me2

    good noodle

    so gravel = road

    stay away from the road? but other ways to travel around the park?
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:55 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    would anagrams be "shape shifters" perhaps?
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:05 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    No anagrams for the word Vulcan. Odd.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:06 PM Permalink
    excavating stud

    I could literally make this clue fit any park.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:20 PM Permalink
    Brassmonkey

    I know, sheesh
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:49 PM Permalink
    mystical_muzik

    well I'm hoping that tonight's clue will give us some more info to torture ourselves with lol btw I'll be at Yarusso's about 8ish who wants to join me? :grin:
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:56 PM Permalink
    pooh

    I know we have spotters out there. Watch the video and they admit it.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:57 PM Permalink
    Mad_Dach5und

    Just think if the Pioneer Press had a 2nd Life account - you 'walk' into it's realm, only to find yourself standing face-to-face with all the Clue Avatars... Not remotely realistic, I know - but freaky nonetheless...
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:57 PM Permalink
    ry

    Andrea and I hope to stop by, if you don't mind. :grin:
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:57 PM Permalink
    mystical_muzik

    by all means! I'm all for company :grin:
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 3:59 PM Permalink
    mystical_muzik

    3 quarters JOE!! :grin:
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:10 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    was there an earlier post on James Goodhue the Fourth? He is the "actor" from the first video. There is a guy who portrays Goodhue on the Video at the St Paul History Center. Goodhue published the Minnesota Pioneer newspaper.http://www.mnhs.org/school/historyplayers/core/goodhue.htm

    If you "listen to each avatar" as in that clue, maybe look at James Goodhue stuff.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:15 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    James Goodhue liked to travel by steamboat.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:19 PM Permalink
    excavating stud

    Here's a new take on clue 2...

    Sir soot, Klondike Kate, and pioneer press (if you take our mother to mean PP) all have first and last names that start with the same letter.

    Maybe this is the twins reference. So maybe our park is named similarly.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:25 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    James R Brown took over the Minnesota Pioneer newspaper after Goodhue died. Brown is part of the history of Hidden Falls.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:28 PM Permalink
    Eags

    Good noodle!
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:42 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    Background and History of the Wabasha Street Bridge River Crossings

    In 1849, newspaper editor James Goodhue envisioned Saint Paul as the crossroads of the continent,

    where east met west and thriving commerce brought prosperity. He called for a National bridge crossing

    the Mississippi River. That vision became the bridge at Wabasha Street.

    Goodhue pushed for the Wabasha Bridge, going into Harriet Island/Rasberry Island
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:56 PM Permalink
    KITCH

    limb?? like a tree limb??
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:56 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    A new Raspberry Island bridge to the west side of the Wabasha Street Bridge will provide vehicle and

    pedestrian access to the island from the south bank.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 4:58 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    "Jeri Hall batman hooker clue" By Redbear.

    Hilarious.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:00 PM Permalink
    KITCH

    no proof that i can find.... but i think that como had one....
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:01 PM Permalink
    green

    Duh! (smacking self on head really hard)

    THOSE are the once blessed with twins! Raspberry and Harriet Islands!
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:03 PM Permalink
    mystical_muzik

    Who's coming to Yarusso's tonight??? :grin:
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:06 PM Permalink
    GreenTeam

    Wow! What a great noodle!
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:16 PM Permalink
    green

    We're looking at that ol' double divisoin thing again, but new.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:18 PM Permalink
    excavating stud

    Parks that have double letter names:

    Highwood Hills

    Hayden Heights

    Phalen Park
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:19 PM Permalink
    Terry

    Good Evening!

    MM - we were there last evening. Though I love the food, I can't eat there every night. Glad you are able to get out and about.

    We did a little run around scouting this evening. Found the gravel at the asphalt place. But there is nothing picturesque about any path from that place.

    We did a quick drive up Pierce Butler in case we're just so used to driving it that we might have missed gravel piles - but nope.

    I've had a thought. Marydale has the playground area with the sand (gravel?) that also contains a fire truck (Vulcans?) and moving anywhere from that would bring you along the Loeb Lake where in many areas there are high spots and lower spots and it's quite picturesque.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:24 PM Permalink
    GreenTeam

    And Arlington/Arkwright.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:27 PM Permalink
    Wicked Nick

    I've been at Cherokee a crap-load, the past couple days.... and have been splitting time between there and hidden falls...

    hoping that i'm still in one of those 2, tonight....
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:31 PM Permalink
    excavating stud

    Loeb Lake

    Double letter name (twins)
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:34 PM Permalink
    wolfpac

    That sure narrows it down.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:49 PM Permalink
    queenmalley

    The medallion will not be hidden on the State Capitol grounds, at Como Zoo & Conservatory, under any skating surface, on a golf course, under artificial turf or at any construction site.

    Harriet isn't listed on the do not hunt list.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 5:50 PM Permalink
    Wicked Nick

    might not be on the list, but its still kind of a given that it wont be there.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 6:02 PM Permalink
    Art Vandelay

    I can't come out tonight because I was a piece of garbage at work today. I will be out tomorrow thru Monday night.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 6:12 PM Permalink
    lilslim

    Ditto on the useless at work!

    I took Friday-Thursday off,3 of the days are unpaid cause I used all my saved vacay on Marcus' FMLA.

    If one of you fie tushes finds this thing you should hook a sista up.
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 6:21 PM Permalink
    excavating stud

    away from the gravel = away from the train tracks
    Tue, 01/19/2010 - 6:22 PM Permalink