1970 Clues
The County has hidden a treasure.
The search to begin,
With a laugh and a grin
And a spirit of fun in good measure.
On public property it safely will perk.
If we ride by the rules
All destruction it cools;
And we find much more pleasure than work.
Many houses of red, green, and pink.
For the problem of pollution
There seems no quick solution;
Unless answers at school form a link.
No feel of defeat or self pity.
Enough height and space,
Makes the view worth the pace.
Hurrah for our beautiful City.
He was much more hero than sap.
In football he rates.
He skis and he skates.
On a merry-go-round takes his nap.
His laboratory had hundreds of the same.
He was greatly impressed,
When he often confessed
The place where he worked had wide fame.
Can't prove he is married or single.
He may pull on his lap
Any doll he can trap.
His secrets would keep all a tingle.
But if she moved slow
Found that when she did go
These same rays, they were warming her cat.
She was skinny like an icicle.
She appeared to be cold,
But her tactics were bold
She at times puckered up like a pickle.
On a road with a swing of a beat.
Familiar old strains,
Soothing rock and roll pains,
When the higher and lower tones meet.
Mack was his name and hers Sadie.
They would picnic in the park.
They would frolic in the dark;
Gossips say this romance was quite shady.
In battle he could hunt like a ferret.
Crossing river and creek,
Information did seek;
Could repeat his own code like a parrot
With goal posts for all football games.
Between posts midway,
On fifty yard line stay.
There a vise holds and our treasure frames.
During the 1990’s, the St Paul Pioneer Press opened online discussion forums. These forums were called Water Coolers. The forums had discussion topics related to sports, politics, news, and current events. Each year, the Pioneer Planet – the online section of the Pioneer Press – opened a discussion forum as a media for hunters to discuss the clues for the Winter Carnival Medallion Hunt.
During the earlier years, one might find a few hundred posts during the hunt. As more hunters had computers, those numbers jumped. From 1997 to 1998, the number of posts increased from the hundreds to the 5-digit thousands. It was during the 1998 hunt the Cooler Crew was born.
The community spirit and teamwork displayed in the Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt thread was inspiring. The group of hunters found themselves at the end of a hunt not wanting to let go of new friendships and the camaraderie found on the Water Cooler board. The idea emerged to do what anyone would do in the middle of winter in Minnesota. A picnic in Cherokee was planned - the first Rehash Bash!
