I ordered a book on a whim, cause it sounded interesting. It came today….not much time to dig in, as I’m leaving shortly to pick up my friend so we can start heading toward Oahu.
The book is a hardcover book by Margot Anne Kelley. It’s called “Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America.”
She herself is a geocacher, though I can’t find her gc name at this point of skimming. The premise is simple…..she has a photograph of sites at or near geocaches, with the cache coordinates, and a short essay about that cache. The bigger picture, in her other essays, involves geocaching as a melding of the old and new…..people using the virtual world to explore the real one. If anyone has read “Bowling Alone in America,” she touches on some of those same themes.
One of the featured caches is by WISearchers (who she mentions in her essay). It’s one they placed in Governor Nelson State Park.
Has anyone else ever seen this book? It’s published by the Center for American Places, which is how I kind of discovered it. (Another site I like to visit sometimes).
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