http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/blog.php?1409-Ekidokai GeocachingMaine.org is a group of Maine geocachers that share the same common interest in geocaching. This is a forum for sharing and provides information and resources in the new sport of Geocaching - locating containers with a GPS unit and coordinates. en Sat, 25 May 2013 02:37:21 GMT vBulletin 60 http://geocachingmaine.org/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/blog.php?1409-Ekidokai http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?25-Discovering-things-about-Maine-because-of-caching-CCC-meaning Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:02:52 GMT I have rode the CCC road many times. Never really thought about the name too much. Then not too long ago Hollora and I did a cache that had some info on the meaning behind the CCC name. I got a email today that had that name in it and I did more searching and found out some more info. I just added... I have rode the CCC road many times. Never really thought about the name too much. Then not too long ago Hollora and I did a cache that had some info on the meaning behind the CCC name. I got a email today that had that name in it and I did more searching and found out some more info. I just added this info to my cache at the start of the CCC road out on the airline.

Where does the CCC road get it's name?

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps in March of 1933. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is widely considered one of the most successful programs of the Depression Era in the United States. By March of 1933, 13,600,000 people were unemployed in the United States. Because of this emergency, President Roosevelt created the CCC only days after his inauguration.

The plan was to put 500,000 unemployed youths to work inforests, parks and public lands. It was essentially a peace time army that worked to conserve the country's natural resources and provide employment for young men during the Great Depression. Rather than establishing a new bureaucracy, the President established this program within existing governmental departments.

Within the first few months, over 250,000 young men were enrolled. Eventually, the CCC enrolled about 3 million unemployed and unmarried men to work on projects including reforestation, construction of fire-observation towers, laying of telephone lines, and development of state parks.
In Maine, over 17,000 young men served in the CCC between 1933 and 1942. The persons eligible for employment in the CCC were unemployed, between the ages of 17 and 25 and came from families on relief. Each person was paid $30 a month, of which $25 was sent to his family and the $5 could be used for personal expenses. The government provided room, board, clothing and tools.

The CCC was responsible for many conservation projects. Although CCC projects were carried out in every state, the CCC carried out many notable projects in Maine. Projects were conducted in state and national parks and Maine forests. In Maine, many of the roads, parks and other facilities that we all enjoy today were built or improved by the CCC during the 1930s and early 1940s.

Some of the larger projects that the CCC conducted were:

Constructing roads and trails in Baxter State Park, Mt. Blue State Park, Rangeley State Park and Camden Hills State Park
Constructing roads and bridges in Acadia National Park

Constructing many segments of 286 miles of the Appalachian Trail in Maine

Building the Evans Notch Road from the town of Fryeburg to Gilead in the White Mountains National Forest
Constructing the lower portion of Capitol Park

Planting trees in Capitol Park and the Veterans Administration Facility at Togus

The CCC also carried out many forest-related projects including:

Building fire-observation towers, storehouses and access trails

Fighting forest fires, conducting forest insect and disease control projects
Planting trees to reforest areas of Maine. ]]> Ekidokai http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?25-Discovering-things-about-Maine-because-of-caching-CCC-meaning http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?18-Phones Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:05:35 GMT Most people that know me know that I hate phones.

Long ago when AT&T broke up and we could buy or own phones and wireless phones and accessories first came out on the market, I was running Down East Electronics. I had one of the first answering machines available and was having trouble coming up with a good message. A friend did a good Mae West so she made a message for me. After a couple of days I started getting a lot of calls. I came home one day and the upstairs neighbor asked if there was a problem with my phone. He said it never stopped ringing. I had 600 calls that day. It all started when one of the nurses mis dialed and she told her friends and on and on. I was getting requests for recordings and information from all over the world. I had created a monster.

Now this was a problem so I decided I had to do something quick. I came up with the perfect idea. I put on my outgoing message a busy signal. This is what would happen. You would call my number and it would ring twice and then the busy signal would start. after a minute it would beep and you could leave a message if you were smart enough to stay on the line after the busy signal started. The calls quickly slowed down and then someone came out with a cassette tape with prerecorded messages and my troubles were over. This is how much of my life has gone.

So I do have reasons for disliking phones. I do like gadgets though, so I have several computer based phones. Skype and the like.

I get a call around 10PM tonight. I miss the call because I can't get the phone open quick enough. I jump on Google phone and dial the number back. I get a strange voice on the other end...

Person: "Hello"

Me: "Hello"

Person: "Who is this?"

Me: "I'm returning your call, you just called me and I didn't pick it up quick enough."

Person: "Mike?"

Me: "Yeah who else would it be?"

Person: "This is Vinny, how did you find me?"

Me: "Well you called me first. Vinny who?"

Vin: "Vin from Middletown."

Me: "Holy crap! What did you want?"

Vin: "I didn't call you."

Me: "Is this your number? ___-___?

Vin: "Yes but I'm in Eritrea"

Me: "Where the hell is that? I have not seen or heard from you since I left Middletown back in 78."

So I connected up with a long lost best friend and talked for several hours catching up. Still don't know where Eritrea is but I will find out soon as now I have his email. No wonder I could never find him when I did searches.

Note to self. When using these computer phones make sure you dial the area code first (207) or it will randomly pick one. ]]> Ekidokai http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?18-Phones http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?16-Not-running-PQ-s-everyday-can-cost-you Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:03:52 GMT So I have my PQ's set to run Tuesday and Wednesday so as not to burden the mighty servers at Geocaching Master command. Load them up into GSAK Wipe out all the old ones and put the new ones in. Load those into the Nuvi and off I go. Made plans for this weekend. Set up a special work plan with some special caches in mind.

So I drive to the southern part of the state and head off to my first cache. A CITO event. Nobody seems to be there. I walk around a while and no one comes around for two hours. There is some snow on the ground from the little storm we had but not even enough to go over sneakers. I collect a bag of trash in 15 minutes. I get to a Wifi site and find out the event has been canceled a day before hand.

This is the second event that got moved. I'll just have to treat events down there like oldsters. Have to check in with them several times a day, everyday, to make sure they are still there. Both in winter. hmmmmmm.

Well, did get to spend some time with a lot of old friends though. They always have a world coming to the end situation that need my help. Have to make more plans for next month. Maybe winter will be over by then. ]]> Ekidokai http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?16-Not-running-PQ-s-everyday-can-cost-you http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?13-Blocked-in-and-trapped Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:55:14 GMT The snow storm came. Dumped a ton of snow here. I try to get outside and can't open the storm door because the snow has come off the roof and blocked me in.

I ask Brdad, Hollora, Mainiac and Cano for help. They all had excuses. Cano had just flushed a bottle down his toilet, Brdad thought I needed more snow and keep throwing snow on my roof then went to work on a macro for that. Hollora said spring is just around the corner. Mainiac was too busy updating the events page. So I am trapped.

I am going to get Tat to publish a cache at my front door. The FTF prizes will be in here with me. I'll get the door open one way or another.

Good thing is I tried out the new chat room. It works great and is a big hit. There were 15 people in there tonight. Friday Night Snow Storm Chat Night. ]]> Ekidokai http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?13-Blocked-in-and-trapped http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?2-The-April-1st-night Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:12:32 GMT Well it is dark and I just chased some awful thing out of a house. While traveling through the night I see signs of impending doom. Trucks scattered along the side of the road with plows on them. Can this mean I missed or forgot about the summer? I think this could be the case. Well it is dark and I just chased some awful thing out of a house. While traveling through the night I see signs of impending doom. Trucks scattered along the side of the road with plows on them. Can this mean I missed or forgot about the summer? I think this could be the case. ]]> Ekidokai http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/entry.php?2-The-April-1st-night