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
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
Deed is Done http://tinyurl.com/CwMessage
Clue 1 http://tinyurl.com/Clue1Video
Clue 2 http://tinyurl.com/clue2videonew
Clue 3 http://tinyurl.com/clue3video
Clue 4 http://tinyurl.com/clue4video
Clue 5 http://tinyurl.com/clue5videonew
Clue 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14Z7enoJmo
Clue 7 http://www.twincities.com/sharedvideo/?bcpid=58071989001&bctid=62974493001
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Can you find anything on who Tony Schmidt was? It sparked my curiosity Tuesday and I spent 4 hours tring to find out who he is/was. Even if it is not at Tony Schmidt I would like to know the answer. He must have been somebody in Ramsey county to get a regional park named after him. I heard perhaps a commisioner but I couldn't even find that.
Thanks!
I know over in Highland Village Walgreens can't move.
I just thought of this while chatting with someone. Thought it might be relevant.
ane
The noodle someone posted about the boats anchoring and selling things seems to make the most literal sense here.
9:48amTrygve
and when exactly does literal sense matter to the cluewriter? What year was that?
:pbpt: :pbpt:
Maybe we could meet after The Hunt, or just get together with a small group. I am no longer comortable hunting [on my own] or attending Cooler gatherings.
In 1847, Harriet Bishop traveled from Vermont to the small but growing city in the West, St. Paul. As part of a program led by educational reformer Catharine Beecher to send women teachers to help educate and civilize frontier children, Bishop was the first of her class to volunteer to go West. She came to the area that would soon become the Minnesota Territory to both educate the children of St. Paul and to exert her moral influence on the rough frontier town. Convinced that women were capable of teaching morality, Bishop became active in many moral issues such as temperance, educational reform, and women's suffrage. She is credited with starting the first public school in St. Paul and the first Sunday school, which led to the first Baptist church in the area.
Alot more good info:
http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/118bishop.html
So is St Paul moral now!!
They also have Highland Village near by.
Just sayin'...
Padelford Packet Boat Company fleet in St. Paul harbor: Harriet Bishop, Josiah Snelling, Jonathan Padelford, Betsey Northrup, Anson Northrup
The Betsey Northrup provides great versatility for Padelford Co. in that it can be operated separately when pushed by the towboat Ugh the Tug.
The Brandon Paul, a former car/truck ferry from Tiptonville, KY, was renamed Betsey Northrup.
The Showboat:
Built in 1899.In 2000 a welderÂ’s torch ignited a blaze that burned the old boat to the waterline. The University was unable to replace the Showboat with the available funds and the Padelford Co. volunteered to build the boat within the UniversityÂ’s budget.
King of Fire?
Now that I think about it though, the last time that I used one, I think that I forgot to flush...
Anchor and Line
http://www.stpaulyachtclub.org/anchorandline/March%202009.pdf
The Saint Paul Yacht Club was founded in 1912 as the Saint Paul Motor Boat Club for the purpose of fostering a greater interest in
motor boating and the Mississippi River. In 1934 the club adopted its present name, S.P.Y.C., and continues more than 90 years of
service to its members and the community.
There is scuttlebutt in the harbors and on the docks that my election to an unprecedented third term as
Commodore SPYC could go to my head. Rumors that your Commodore could very well become anoth-
er Lord Nelson or a Bull Halsey....a strict disciplinarian, demanding and uncompromising; leading from
the top down.
These rumors are true.
Let the word be passed up and down this mighty river that there is new management aboard and that
the SPYC is the best, most accommodating, friendliest, safest, most affordable and well managed mari-
na on the river. Be assured that as we go forward your officers and I will maintain this condition.
Stand by to launch boats in April and May...be prepared (all fees must be paid).
As you were,
Peter Kramer, Commodore SPYC
Deborah Howell's last name is pronounced Howl, like a wolf
Harriet Bishop was a woman of many firsts, all of which dramatically impacted the frontier territory that would become Minnesota. She is perhaps best remembered for her role as the first public schoolteacher in St. Paul in 1847. Charged with a sense of the importance of feminine virtue, Christian duty and divinely inspired education, Harriet Bishop and her school helped to transform the rugged outpost of St. Paul into a flourishing town. Of equal importance was her participation in and support of the First Baptist Church, the St. Paul Circle of Industry, the Baptist Women's Sewing Circle, the Territorial Temperance Society, the Christian Aid Society, the St. Paul Women's Seminary, and the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. Harriet Bishop pioneered St. Paul's first Protestant Sunday school and joined the Minnesota Historical Society as a founding member. In addition, she acted as the first state organizer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
In all of these endeavors, Harriet Bishop sought to enhance the stability and morality of Minnesota, establish a society of like-minded individuals, and improve the lot of Christian women like herself. Harriet's books, including Floral Home and Minnesota Then and Now, also served these purposes. They provided a ladylike appeal for a larger feminine sphere of influence and acted as prime Minnesota booster material. While calling for further settlement of her beloved adopted home, Harriet declared, "If Earth has a paradise, it is here." Indeed, if St. Paul and Minnesota were Harriet Bishop's vision of paradise, it was because of her lifelong struggle to make it so.
Bishop moved from Vermont to St. Paul in 1847, fresh from her training with Catharine Beecher, a reformer (and sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe) who believed that women needed to be well educated in order to devote themselves to the moral development and education of their children and their homes. As part of Beecher's program to train women to help educate and civilize frontier children, Bishop answered a call from Minnesota missionary Thomas S. Williamson. In addition to founding a school (her first schoolhouse was a former blacksmith's shop).
Blacksmith: King of Fire?
Who'da thunk nekked kids like skritchin' and kisses and all that. (shakes head)
We'll make a date. Ares and Chesty welcome.
But no seedin' with Klondike bar wrappers, etc.
Did you wa(r)sh your hands?
Coughin' up a lung on that one!
That would be soooo much fun, I love archeology! How did you get involved with that?
But then Mrs.Zephy comes to visit not too long ago, and she is as sweet as can be...
While they don't have a lot of room for anything else, they do give you a really nice sized sink. I don't like the way they leave all of the little brown soaps just floating around in the water, they get very soft that way. I think they should switch brands of soap anyway, it doesn't leave me feeling very fresh...