CoolerCrew.com - Thieves With Plastic Blue Hearts

You Dig?

Thieves With Plastic Blue Hearts

This is a nonprofit site meant to add further enjoyment to a St. Paul, Minnesota hobby and tradition. At present, this site exists because the St. Paul Pioneer Press has allowed it to. Truth is, without the cooperation of the Pioneer Press and the exceptional folks at Pioneer Planet this site would be hard to operate, being that much of the good stuff is copyrighted by the Pioneer Press. The clues are the real butter for this basket of breadsticks and without them there's really no point in pursuing all else that follows. The clues belong to the Pioneer Press.

We do, however, develop original material, as a simple post of the clues would be quite dry. For instance, the explanations are not all Press originals. The stories and images are not press originals unless otherwise stated. And when credit is known, it is given. In no way are we trying to steal for personal gain. Where we will take credit is in the compilation of this material. Nowhere else is this done, thus the reason why the St. Paul paper seems to have taken a fancy toward our endeavors.

So enjoy, contribute, and let us know when we seem to have overstepped our bounds. Now go look at something more fun to read.

Greg Sax
Site Founder

Contributions encouraged

This page was last modified on Jan 5 2007 1:42PM.

This site is dedicated to the St. Paul Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt, a main attraction of the annual St. Paul Winter Carnival that takes place every year in the smaller of the Twin Cities. For more on the Winter Carnival, try the following:

Cooler Crew Medallion Hunt Discussions (This link is for Coolerheads who have already registered at ableminds. The registration link is below

-- If you are not registered on the Discussion board, click here

Winter Carnival HQ

Treasure Hunt Headquarters

Treasure Hunter's Guide

Kings Commons

Camo Crue

For a complete list of treasure hunting resources, visit our links page.

The Here and Beyond

All the clues from all the years are now available. They're not currently as perfectly explained as they ought to be, but we're getting there. As time permits, the clue descriptions will be cleaned up and anecdotes will be added to make you laugh and clap. The individual hunt pages through the 1970s are dynamically generated by the web server, and may contain links to the more recent hunts, whose content differs from the static pages; At the moment, we're working on getting all of the supplemental information into the same dynamic page engine as the clues are. As we do, more of the site will be converted to the dynamic pages you currently see, and links may be temporarily broken as a result. If you ever find anything that offends you, don't hesitate to write and complain. No malice or poor taste is ever intended in these family-friendly pages.

One of the more recent representative images of the hunt from the Pioneer Press. For a look at Winter Carnival button designs from past years, see Ron Young's excellent St. Paul Winter Carnival button collection or another keep-it-simple button index reminiscent of the earliest days of the Web.