Here are all the hints in one place. I hope you folks have the time and interest to look for some of them.

wayne

Wayne Langman

April 9 at 9:54 AM · 

Well it's time I got to work. I'm getting the White's Easter Eggs out and I hope this year will be a little tougher. Last year I used a lot of photos and pretty much painted a huge X over every hiding place. So I'm starting off with just hints this time.

First look for a small town on the Covered Bridge map.
The name is the same as the landmark you seek.
As you stand in the drive and look across at the Mill your guiding Star will you see.
It points the way to a very old tree that is almost as old as the bridge, and half way between is the treasure you seek.

Yeah the poetry sucks so sue me.
The White's people tell me that most of the coins from last year were never returned. Either people never found them or kept them for themselves. One of the ones I hid was never reported found so I wonder how many are still out there.
Good luck.

Wayne Langman

April 9 at 9:48 PM · 

The first egg was in Parke County and now we are in Vigo. Remember if you find one of them post a picture of you and your find.
This small town was a good day's ride from Terre Haute for the first settlers. Then the National Road made things a bit better.
Once it was recommended as a good place to "Stop and Rest", and almost everyone knows the name if not the exact town limits.
Find the old school yard and take a seat to watch an old time game that just will not go away. If you are in the right place it's just a short pitch away.

Wayne Langman

April 12 at 8:42 PM · 

Ok, here we go again. This time we are in Vermillion County. In a town with the most famous hill in the county. There really is a lot of history in this small town. The Court House, the old county jail, and the library among other sites. As you visit these sites you will see a place just for the young and young at heart. Then, if you know your trees you can set on the large root of the Cypress tree and watch the net as the game goes on. If you make it to this seat you can almost touch the prize. One last hint if trees aren't your thing. The Cypress, like the Sycamore, has a shaggy looking bark.

Wayne Langman

3 mins · 

This is the last of the Easter eggs and I hope you all have a good time. I'm sorry about the delay but I do have something of a life.
This time we return to Clay county and the town that is one of the oldest in the county and once was home to the county seat. These folks take pride even now in their old settlers and like to party in their honor.
Find the bandstand at the party grounds and look at the crack in the floor. Then look at the door. In between the band the that wall is the treasure you seek.
Remember to post if you find one of them.

Good By Cruel World

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It was fun while it lasted 

Farewell all of you and good luck.

                                                                A Nightmare on Main Street.

   Every parent’s worst nightmare is to have a child go missing. This has happened twice in the small town of Seelyville in Lost Creek Township in eastern Vigo County. 

The first case became a nationwide hunt when a search was conducted and every old mine shaft and barn was searched for the child of the respected town Doctor, Dr. S. L. Byer, but, he was never seen again.

 Doctor S. L. Byres is something of an enigma. The doctor is mentioned in newspaper clippings of the time as Doctor S. L. Byers who attended among other things a banquet held in Terre Haute for local Doctors. 

  He and his family appear in the 1900 and 1910 U. S. Census. In 1900 he is S. Lenard Byers with Martha as his wife and eight children with Richmond shown as a year old (actually 10 months.). The doctor was born in Kentucky in 1851, and his wife Martha in Indiana in 1862. They had 8 children all together. In 1910 the Doctor is Leonard S. Byers, with wife Martha, and five children with ages between eight and twenty. In both census reports that Byers’ kept borders in their home. But since Seelyville was at the time a coal town with several mines in the area keeping borders was a lucrative business.

  The youngest boy, named Richmond, went missing on May twenty-ninth in the summer of 1904 after he was supposedly seen talking to a strange man.

  Now here the story varies. In one version the boy, on the morning of the first of June, had crossed the street to the local Ice Cream Shop at the corner of Ayers and Main Streets and was returning home when the meeting with the strange man is supposed to have happened.

 However the Doctor sent letters all over the country trying to find his son and these tell a different story.

  In the Doctor’s own words;

Quote “After coming to the ball grounds at about 3:15 P.M. Sunday the 29^th of May, 1904, bringing home his tricycle, (Rich) immediately left, we supposing he expected to return to the company of children at the game. It has not been definitely settled that he got back there, but he was seen by Mrs. Coffy (a resident of the town), who called him back and asked him what he had said to a man to whom he was talking. He told her that he said to the man: ”You have a blackened eye, where did you get it ? At the saloon ?”

  The man was in his shirt sleeves. Now, he had a coat somewhere. He would not have been dressed like that had he been a resident of any town near here, as everybody was dressed up, it being the first really fine Sunday that spring, which makes me believe he had a wagon somewhere near the town. Besides, five wagons passed through the town that afternoon and six wagons were together when they passed through Terre Haute, eight miles from here. One of them came back next day. Four were overhauled the next night (and searched) but the sixth was never overtaken.

  A Doctor of Clinton, sixteen miles from Terre Haute, wrote me that a covered wagon went into a lane four miles from his home that Sunday night. Now it is the custom for these rovers to go into camp before sundown, as they depend on the children to beg their food and let their emaciated horses graze. It is useless to try and convince me that that wagon did not have my boy in it. And a covered wagon was seen over 100 miles north near the state line, making good headway.

I thank you kindly for your respect and sympathy.” End quote.         

  It is assumed the “Ball Field” the Doctor referred to was the local school ground which stood just a few doors south of the Doctor’s Main Street home. As the boy was only four, maybe just five since he was 10 months old when the census was taken, at the time many today might wonder that he had such freedom to start with, but these were simpler times and children were seen as more independent and small towns as very safe places.

  At the time “Gypsies” had been seen in the area and they were often blamed for anything missing. That same day over one hundred searchers started looking and that night under the electric light in the center of the town a meeting was held to plan a bigger search. This story soon spread state wide.   All of the local mines closed shop the next day and every miner within ten miles of the town took off work and searched the area for any sign of the boy.                           

   This meant roughly four hundred people, many experienced miners, searching the area. Every old mine was searched and every sink hole, pond, stream, field, and woods walked over and searched.

  At the United Mine Workers Convention in Indianapolis, held from the fifteenth to the thirtieth March in 1906, the group passed a resolution submitted by the Seelyville union local to ask all union locals to remind their members to keep watch for any sign of the boy. From the wording this was the second time the motion was made and passed. This placed over a million sets of eyes on the watch for any sign of the boy.

  The Brazil Times on the third of July 1908 ran a story of how a crude note was found west of Terre Haute along the National Road than may have been written by the boy and tossed from a wagon as his kidnappers returned to the scene of their crime. Other stories of bazaar ransom demands were also written of in the local papers. The story ran in the Fort Wayne news two years later with the picture of the boy shown above. 

    By the third of June the story was in the Indianapolis papers, and the story and the search lasted for years afterward. Along with the local papers it ran in The Sun of Chanute Kansas on sixteen February, 1906, and The Marlboro Democrat of Bennettsville, South Carolina, on the twenty third of March in 1906. The story also appeared in a periodical called “The Motor Way” for car enthusiasts who liked to travel by motor car. Published in 1905 the article asked motorists around the mid-west to keep watch for the boy. And rewards of $500 were posted in these articles which was quite a bit for those times.  

  The boy was described at that time as “having a light complexion with grey eyes, the left eye being noticeably crossed. Has a small “V” shaped nick in the edge of his left ear, with a sharp chin and narrow projecting forehead. Is small for his age and unusually bright, speaking like a much older child.”   

 The good Doctor even was reported to have made trips as far afield as Arkansas to look for the boy. A fund was raised of some $1500 to help with the search, and a few years after the boy went missing the United Mine Workers had donated $3000 and called on every local union in the country to keep watch for the boy.

  While the Doctor seems to have left no stone unturned not everyone accepted his story. Rumor has it though that Richmond may not have just gone missing. The Doctor had a bit of a reputation among some neighbors for being abusive with his family and some believed he accidently killed the boy and hid his body in the cellar of the house.

  This is somewhat supported by a story passed down in the Dickerson family who owned the property behind the Doctor’s house, extending all the way from the National Road to the school yard. One of the family men, who worked the evening shift for the railroad and who lived on the National Road roughly a block west of Main Street, told of hearing a child crying as he walked home from the railroad station late one night through the woods behind his home and upon searching he found a young boy, the Doctor’s son, tied to a tree. When asked what happened the lad said that it was his father who tied and left him there.

  At the time people would mind their own business and the Doctor was seen by most as respectable. Mr. Dickerson freed the boy and said nothing to anyone outside his own family. In those days a man was the King of his Castle and seldom questioned. One family member later swore though that if the Doctor’s house ever stood empty they would go looking for the boy in the cellar.

   As it happens as of now that house now stands empty.

I've got a little list and they never will be missed.

I’VE GOT A LITTLE LIST!

I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!

 aka “As someday it may happen” “The Mikado” by Gilbert and Sullivan.

  Like most people of my generation I’m not a huge fan of opera, though I do like the little operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. I first encountered The Mikado in my junior high school music class where Mrs. Jacobson had us set through and listen to Groucho Marx in the Mikado. That one song stuck with me as it struck a chord in my soul.

   We have all felt this way at one point or another. That those annoying people who make day to day living sheer Hell should all just drop dead.

   When it was written over 150 years ago it listed people who played Banjo solos, and who shook hands with a 2 handed grasp of yours and a violent prolonged shaking, as possible fodder for the headsman’s axe. And every few years the list has been updated to include the newest forms of public nuisances.

  So here, in no particular order, is my unfinished list of those who “Never will be missed”.

1.     Those people who get to the checkout clerk and are compelled to pay with exact change. And then must dig through every available place to find 2 pennies.

2.     Those souls that hold impromptu reunions in the aisles of the supermarket and block all possible movement.

3.     Likewise those who meet old friends in the door of the place and must stop and discuss old Aunt Mable and her cat.

4.     Those lost souls that get in their cars and start the engine, put it in reverse so that the lights come on, and then feel a sudden need to dig through their possessions to find something while traffic backs up waiting for them to get the Hell out of the way.

5.     Drivers and you know who you are, who set at the light sending and checking messages until the light has nearly cycled full circle. You then gun the car through the yellow light and leave the rest to wait.

6.     People who cruise along at or below the speed limit in the inside lane of the road blocking anyone from passing anyone.   

7.     Those deaf and dumb idiots who have the base cranked up to where it makes your mirror vibrate and your vision blur as they set beside you.

8.     The imbeciles with the loud pipes that blast up and down the street in the wee hours of the morning just to see the lights come on. You know the ones that you hear coming for 10 minutes before they turn the corner with squalling tires and pipes blasting to roar off in the other direction where you can hear them fade away for another few minutes. 

9.     Idiots so focused on their phones they run you over with a shopping cart or just run into you themselves.

1.  And then there are the telemarketers who somehow clone local phone numbers so you can’t tell who’s calling you. I get at least one call a month from the local National Guard base selling some kind of credit service.

1.  Everyone who has ever been a guest on either one of those talk where the woman can’t remember who she slept with to get pregnant, and the guys all swear they couldn’t possibly be the father of a child that look just like them. (DNA don’t lie fool) What shining examples of Americans put up there for the world to admire.

 . Then there are all the owners of all those click bait website that get your attention with a hot picture and a suggestion that someone has died, then when you click for the story you get a new page with one picture of something else and one sentence about the subject. You have to click through a dozen or more pages to get a story that could have been told in a short paragraph.

1.  Lastly and I’m sorry, but people who just cannot control their children when they take them out to eat or anywhere else. When our kids acted like wild animals in public they went back in the car and we went home.

There is a long list of others out there as well but you get the idea.

Not a single day goes by when my opinion of the average human does not slip a little bit more. And keep in mind that on average that means that half of the rest of the people are even worse than that one.   

Is it getting cold again? Do the Democrats want another Cold War

  I clearly remember the Cold War era. I remember all the discussion of how evil the Soviet Union was and how they meant to carry out Khrushchev's promise  "We will bury you !". He made that promise while standing in front of the cameras in the United Nations main chamber and a full meeting of the UN. He even took off a shoe and used it the strike the podium for emphasis. 
  I remember the anti communist fears of those days, and I remember the Cuban Missile Crises when I stood in the school playground with a group of chums looking at the sky and discussing whether you would see a missile coming in before it exploded.   
  And I remember how after John Kennedy the Democrats began to move to the left and preached how we should accept and learn to live with the Communist governments of the world. 
  After all, "Better RED than dead." 
  From then on the Democrats became the party of a friendly hand toward the USSR. They changed though when a Republican tried to reach out in friendship. When Nixon ended the Vietnam War the Democrat controlled congress de-funded the peace accords. When the Reagan administration pushed the Soviets to try and de-stabilize their economy Senator Ted Kennedy, the brother of John Kennedy of the Missile crises, contacted the Russian ambassador to assure him that there were enough democrats in the Senate to block anything Reagan tried to do.  When the Soviet Union collapsed these same people suddenly cried out about the hardships being placed on the people in those countries. 
  Where were their voices before that?
   I spent 22 years in the military and served in Vietnam. For most of that time all we trained to fight was the Soviet Union and always in Germany. So deeply was the fear of them ingrained that even after the collapse we trained to fight them.
  Then came Glasnost. We started to talk about mutual concerns and the walls came down.
  We began to invest in the former USSR and it seemed that the Democrats now began to talk of fear toward what was fast becoming an ally.
  I hope McCain's fears are based on his life in the Cold War and not some political plan to use the Russians as a Boogy man to scare the rest of the country.
  Below is what someone else thinks about what is going on.
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Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy?

Home  Commentary  Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy?

Patrick J. Buchanan February 28, 2017 at 6:54 am 0Commentary, Lead Stories

  The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be “be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism.”

McCain was followed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who called for a “post-West world order.” Russia has “immense potential” for that said Lavrov, “we’re open for that inasmuch as the U.S. is open.”

  Now McCain is not wrong. Nationalism is an idea whose time has come again. Those “old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism” do seem everywhere ascendant. But that is a reality we must recognize and deal with. Deploring it will not make it go away.

  But what are these “universal values” McCain is talking about?

  Democracy? The free elections in India gave power to Hindu nationalists. In Palestine, Hamas. In Lebanon, Hezbollah. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, then overthrown in a military coup welcomed by the world’s oldest and greatest democracy. Have we forgotten it was a democratically elected government we helped to overthrow in Kiev?

  Democracy is a bus you get off when it reaches your stop, says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, autocrat of Ankara, a NATO ally.

  Is freedom of religion a “universal value”?

  Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping’s China and you can wind up in a cell.

  As for the Western belief in the equality of all voluntary sexual relations, in some African and Muslim countries, homosexuals are beheaded and adulterers stoned to death.

  In Nuristan Province in U.S.-liberated Afghanistan this month, an armed mob of 300 besieged a jail, shot three cops and dragged out an 18-year-old woman who had eloped with her lover to escape an arranged marriage. Beaten by relatives, the girl was shot by an older brother with a hunting rifle and by a younger brother with his AK-47.

  Afghan family values.

  Her lover was turned over to the husband. An “honor killing,” and, like suicide bombings, not uncommon in a world where many see such actions as commendable in the sight of Allah.

  McCain calls himself an “unapologetic believer in the West” who refuses “to accept that our values are morally equivalent to those of our adversaries.”

  Lavrov seemed to be saying this:

  Reality requires us here in Munich to recognize that, in the new struggle for the world, Russia and the U.S. are natural allies not natural enemies. Though we may quarrel over Crimea and the Donbass, we are in the same boat. Either we sail together, or sink together.

  Does the foreign minister not have a point?

  Unlike the Cold War, Moscow does not command a world empire. Though a nuclear superpower still, she is a nation whose GDP is that of Spain and whose population of fewer than 150 million is shrinking. And Russia threatens no U.S. vital interest.

  Where America is besieged by millions of illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico, Russia faces to her south 1.3 billion Chinese looking hungrily at resource-rich Siberia and Russia’s Far East.

  The China that is pushing America and its allies out of the East and South China Seas is also building a new Silk Road through former Russian and Soviet provinces in Central Asia. With an estimated 16 million Muslims, Russia is threatened by the same terrorists, and is far closer to the Middle East, the source of Sunni terror.

  Is Putin’s Russia an enemy, as McCain seems to believe?

  Before we can answer that question, we need to know what the new world struggle is about, who the antagonists are, and what the threats are to us.

  If we believe the struggle is for “global democracy” and “human rights,” then that may put Putin on the other side. But how then can we be allies of President el-Sissi of Egypt and Erdogan of Turkey, and the kings, emirs and sultans of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman?

  But if the new world struggle is about defending ourselves and our civilization, Russia would appear to be not only a natural ally, but a more critical and powerful one than that crowd in Kiev.

  In August 1914, Europe plunged into a 50-month bloodbath over an assassinated archduke. In 1939, Britain and France declared war to keep Poland from having to give up a Prussian port, Danzig, taken from Germany under the duress of a starvation blockade in 1919 and in clear violation of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the Danzigers’ right of self-determination. In the two wars, 50 million to 100 million died.

  Today, the United States is confronting Russia, a huge and natural ally, over a peninsula that had belonged to her since the 18th century and is 5,000 miles from the United States.

  “We have immense potential that has yet to be tapped into,” volunteered Lavrov. But to deal, we must have “mutual respect.”

  Hopefully, President Trump will sound out the Russians, and tune out the Beltway hawks.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.” To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

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If God is real, he must feel like most parents do at times.

 Have you ever watched as one of your kids made a bad decision? In spite of your arguments they are steadfast in their choice and will go ahead in spite of all you say. That must be how God feels now. He has tried and tried but we just will not listen.

  I am not a Muslim but I can see why so many are joining that religion.

  Today the AP reports that the Pope is concerned about the number of priests and nuns who are leaving the church. He blames it on a society that doesn’t respect commitment.  It also mentions that in many countries where the Catholic Church has traditionally been strong the number of young people choosing a life of service has fallen drastically.

  I do not think he understands that he and his policies may be part of the problem.

  There has always been a belief that God is unchanging and forever. “As He is today, was yesterday, and shall always be.” God and his teachings and laws are supposed to be forever just as is his mercy and forgiveness. That is the way it has been described by the various religions that follow the Jewish-Islamic-Christian God. God is unchanging and his laws are set down in the various Holy books. Man cannot change these laws and teachings, just to suit current fashion and societal whims.

  And yet today we demand that God’s words be set aside in the name of Social Justice. Even the Pope himself has stated as much. But the Pope is not God. And he has not the power to re-write God’s words.

  In a time when most religions are losing faithful Islam is growing. Why?

  Islam is unapologetic about God’s word. It is firm in the word being the final answer to all questions. And this unyielding position sets it apart as an anchor in a world of uncertainty. As people march in the streets demanding the Catholics and other Christian sects turn their back on the Holy texts and accept a more PC way of seeing people you see few willing to march against Islam. They know these faithful will not be swayed.

  Where Christianity has become a religion of extreme tolerance and turning the other cheek it has become less and less attractive in a world of uncertainty. How can you turn to a God for help if he keeps changing his mind and going back on his word? How can you trust a God that ignores his own commandments? This is part of why Christians are so looked down on today they are selling out their own God. 

   A Pope who advocates changing the church to attract members is selling out a promise of Heaven and blessings to get a few more faces in the pews. He is damning souls to gain tithes.

   The church was made by man to worship and praise his God. To join a church that you do not agree with is stupid at best. Better to look for one that suits your beliefs, or better yet chose to learn and follow the tenets of the church you have chosen, because any church that is willing to ignore the words of its own God to suit current social whims is not going to save you.

  There is a reason that there is a “Highway to Hell” and a “Stairway to Heaven”.

  It gives you an idea of the traffic flow in each direction.    

                                                                   Utopia

So why not something for everyone?

  Have you ever heard that bit about how the richest country on the planet should provide everyone with a minimum income and lifestyle?

 I agree that we should have a minimum level of lifestyle for everyone. However, what I might think is good enough may be too low for you and too high for the next person. 

 But here are my thoughts on it.

  In the US we should start by putting every new born CITIZEN on a health care program that will cover the childhood shots and needs and provide care until they reach 21. From there on they get an annual health screen and any needed preventative treatments. Lifestyle choices that are considered bad will be provided counseling to help you get off them. Those who choose to not change will sign a waiver of coverage for any problems those choices may cause. Over eating, drugs and booze are a choice. I would build government run hospitals and clinics across the country where treatment is free except for the above mentioned lifestyle choices. Waits at free clinics tend to be long. Private hospitals will want insurance cards or cash.

  I would also give every new born a Social Security Account and from the day of their birth I would put $1000 a month into that account. That money belongs to the person from day one. Credited every month on their birth date it goes on the books.

  If a parent falls on hard times they can file to access the money to help with expenses, but they have to show a good reason to get to it, and will be limited to $1000 a month. They cannot drain what is in the account before they file. Parental access ends when the child turns eighteen.

 That money, left alone, will be over $200,000 by the time the child reaches college age and can be used to pay for the college of their choice. Or at eighteen the child can start getting the $1000 each month to live on. The choice to draw the money must be renewed every six months. Again except for justified uses like college or buying a home access to the balance is blocked.

  A young adult has another choice available. They can find a job and earn a living while still drawing that extra $1000, or just live on what they earn and let the SSA money accrue.  

 A young adult can, if they wish, choose to live out their life on just that basic income. They can try to get by in the general world, or they can choose to go where that money will be more than enough to live on. They can, if they want, sign up to be a ward of the government, or WOG.  

  We should build cities for those who choose to be on minimum support. Nice cities with public transportation and clean streets, parks and libraries. Government run schools within easy bus rides from the housing blocks, stores located in an evenly spaced grid to make them easy to get to, clinics and hospitals will all be provided. Minimum comfort levels, prices kept at acceptable levels to match the minimum level of income, everything needed for a minimum level of life within reach and affordable.

  Those who choose this life of their own free will however, will have to give up some things to get it. Someone else will decide what that minimum level of life should be. You will not be able to vote for politicians who promise to raise the standards to ever higher levels. Those who choose to be a ward of the government cannot vote. To allow them to vote risks building a block of semi slaves that will be forced to be loyal to their masters who hold the purse strings.

 Anyone can leave the WOG status at any time. Just get a job. Seek employment, start paying taxes, and after a year you are can be a citizen again. But that will mean leaving the city housing blocks and supporting yourself.  No more shopping at the low income stores and the like.

 Those who are forced to the minimum level due to health, age, or misfortune, who do not want to sign up as a WOG, still have all their rights and can choose to live where they wish. They will get the same minimum support and any other income they may have earned while working or can earn at the time. They will still be taxed at the going rate and expected to do their best to support themselves.

  Left alone that basic income should, by the age of 65 say, be about three quarters of a million in the bank. If you live to be ninety for example that would let you draw $31,000 a year on top of your $1000 a month as a basic retirement. That’s better than most get today. Add in a company retirement plan and you have a pretty good setup for your Golden Years.

  Okay so where does the money come from to pay for all this? It comes from taxes of course. Taxes on those who want more than a basic lifestyle, who feel the need to produce something with their own hands, or mind, who want to give their children and spouses a better life, and all those government workers who work in those government run cities for the WOGs. And remember the money the WOGs get, comes right back into the government coffers from the government run stores and shops.

  What current problems would be solved? Well there would be no welfare, food stamps, unemployment, disability, medicare, or medicaid to be defrauded and wasted. Unemployment will drop as a WOG is not counted as unemployed because they are not in the labor force by choice. There will still be demand for all the basics and all the luxuries and frills of life so there will be jobs providing them and well as the government jobs looking after the WOGs.