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
ALso, a basketball team has 15 people...maybe it's in a timberwolves sock.
Davern was the 1st surveyor. What does a surveyor do?
"an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures"
Interesting......
one horn up one down
UP -- franciscan sisters live on prior ave in highland.
DOWN -- Prior Ave goes down into HF at the margin of HF/Crosby.
Lily the bear gives birth
The Minnesota black bear is the subject of a research study — and fascination on the Web. Lily may live in a cave, but she's also very much present on Facebook and Twitter. The three-year-old has been trying to hibernate — and gestate — while her daily activities were caught on tape 24/7. So when she gave birth to cub number one, the Web went wild. You can see the video, below. Biologists who noted her contortions concluded that congratulations were in order. Although Lily is pretty private, you can hear the first sounds of her baby. Searches in the last week for "lily the bear" shot up over 1,600%. Those searching for Lily's bundle of joy wanted to know "did lily the bear have cubs yet" and how to access the "bear cam."
#5- Landmark most uncouth-- Landmark brewery also right around there
http://books.google.com/books?id=2TJIulWZTkUC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=the+street+were+you+live+stonebridge+st+paul+mn&source=bl&ots=aheWB4obCs&sig=KeA8gEDXvdKmnxXuiuwoBeZAXh8&hl=en&ei=3GdcS86WD5HwNMyxmNsF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=stonebridge%20blvd%20st%20paul%20mn&f=false another link...
However, there is a small parcel of WSP that MAY BE in Ramsey County (an old concession to the superintendent of schools at the time). This parcel is I believe 40 acres in size and lies just west of Charlton Street, dipping down a few blocks into St. Paul. So the map shows a "corporate line" that puts that part of WSP into SP. The county line does not show up as a county line along that particular stretch, so I am not sure if that little part of WSP is considered to be in Ramsey County or not.
Baker Rec Center lies just north of this.
http://www.stpaul.gov/index.aspx?NID=1281
Kennedy Park (a West St. Paul park) lies north of Annapolis. Again, not sure if this is considered Ramsey or Dakota County at this point. That would depend on what agreements were made back at the time when 40 acres was adjoined to WSP. But it would definitely be up to the margin.
http://www.ci.west-saint-paul.mn.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={32E21C1C-D6FE-4E9E-9F20-43FAA02BB2CA}&DE={B912E08B-B79B-49EA-BE56-E59936F557EC}
...there is a small parcel of WSP that MAY BE in Ramsey County...
Edited portion is the portion in red.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=55107&sll=44.9567,-92.902272&sspn=0.552945,1.454315&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Saint+Paul,+Ramsey,+Minnesota+55107&ll=44.911043,-93.127048&spn=0.004323,0.011362&t=h&z=17
interesting read, you may have seen it already
Fountain Cave was estimated to have been 1,150 feet in length, and was possibly Minnesota's longest natural sandstone cave. Following the eviction of Parrant, the cave and the spring that ran through it was turned into a tourist attraction in the mid 1800's. it was then used as a sewer in the late 1800's before finally having the entry covered over in the 1960's during the construction of Shephard Rd. The still-intact cave is now buried complete with its huge brick-lined rooms, awaiting future archaeologists.
How could this be so? Had NO IDEA the city of St Paul was founded at a cave site.
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=44.923448&lon=-93.122293&z=18&l=0&m=s&v=9
Onedia is also a pottery/dishes maker/silverware. Onedia are also a First Nation people, New York area. "People of the Upright Stone."
The Oneida people were chased into a clearing within the woodlands and suddenly disappeared. The enemy of the Oneida could not find them and so it was said that these people had turned themselves into stones that stood in the clearing. As a result, they became known as the People of the Standing Stone (wiki).
The people identify with three clans: the Wolf, Turtle or Bear clans. A person's clan is the same as his or her mother's clan.
There is an Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, but unsure if settled in Mn. The Onedia Nation of WI has invested in the Green Bay Packers.
During the latter half of the 1800's FOuntain Cave was popular for picnics and tours. In 1880's the Chicago , St.Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad built shops and a roundhouse atop the cave, near what is now Randolf Road and Drake Street. This construction interfered with the apparent source of the cave's water, where Fountain Creek flowed into the ground in a sinkhole near the current Randolph and Drake. Some of the sewage and wastes of the railroad were discharged into the cave.
During the 1920's at least one group ran a moonshine still within the cave, and in the 1950's Archer Daniels Midland built a grain elevator at the top of the cave's ravine. In 1960 the ravine was filled for construction of Shepard Road, and the cave's mouth was lost.
(Not sure if already posted, sorry).
"Hail Mary?"
and then i found that the original railroad bridge there was one of the original 15 bridges across the mississippi
joe!
the delta is usually where the river drains into the ocean, in this case southeast of new orleans.