Re-Visit the Past Multi-Cache
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Glendale Springs is a quaint, peaceful, beautiful community located in Ashe County in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. In fact, it is just off Milepost 259 on the Blue Ridge Parkway (near the Northwest Trading Post) and right on Highway 16 connecting Jefferson and North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. This is another in a series of caches designed to introduce others to the warmth and charm of this area.
In the late 1800’s Episcopal missionaries came to this region of the Blue Ridge Mountains to provide schooling and medical help for the people living there. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church was built in Glendale Springs in 1901. After the church was officially closed in 1946, members began removing the furnishings and taking them home. For over 30 years the church sat deserted and neglected.
In 1972, Rev. Faulton Hodge became priest-in-charge at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in nearby West Jefferson. In the late 1970’s, he started a campaign to restore Holy Trinity. As work progressed on the building, the original furnishings were returned. Today the church has its original pews, pump organ, Altar, and candle stands.
Not only did Father Hodge bring new life to this small church, but his interest in art would also lead to a meeting with Ben Long and to the frescoes.
A native of North Carolina, Ben Long apprenticed in Italy to learn the art of true fresco and became an international master of the technique. When Long returned from his studies and work in Italy, he was anxious to bring the ancient technique to this country. After being introduced to Father Hodge by a fellow artist, Ben Long offered to paint a fresco as a gift.
In 1980 Ben Long painted the fresco “The Lord’s Supper” behind the Altar at Holy Trinity. Long and 20 of his students spent three months completing the fresco while the church was still undergoing renovations. People from many denominations took turns feeding the artists and something of a competition began with each meal working to be better than the previous one. People from the community also became models for both the students’ works and as the disciples in Long’s “The Last Supper”.
This should be a fairly simple two stage multi-cache. The posted coordinates should place you on the walkway just outside the steps to the entrance to Holy Trinity. Turn and face Highway 16 and locate the large granite structure with a bronze plaque in the middle. You will need to work with this plaque in determining the final coordinates for the cache which is a small cammoed ziplock,holding a log (sorry, no pencil). It is located at:
N 3 6 * ___ ___ . ___ ___ ___
W 0 8 1 * ___ ___ . ___ ___ ___
1) Count the number of letters in line 2 and subtract the total number of hyphenated words that appear on the plaque from this total. (A hyphenated word would count as one word; for example - multi-cache would be one word.) Place the result in the first two blanks of the North coordinate.
2) Count the number of letters in the first word on line four and place this number in the third blank of the North coordinate.
3) Subtract three years from the person's year of death and place the last two digits in the remaining two blanks in the North coordinate.
4) Count the total number of words appearing on the plaque (hyphenated words and abbreviations each count as one word; for example – multi-cache would count as one word while WM.Rutherford would count as two words) and subtract the number of letters in the last word on line one from this total. Place the result in the first two blanks of the West coordinate.
5) Count the number of letters in the second word on line two and place this number in the third blank of the West coordinate.
6) Subtract the person’s year of birth from their year of death and add 5 to this total. Place this number in the remaining two blanks of the West coordinate.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Qnavry jbhyq abg unir orra fpnerq