Finally getting time to announce our "Letterboxing Lifetime
Achievement Award" for those who have gone WAY "above and beyond" in
establishing and promoting our special hobby! As the name implies,
this letterbox is not for any single "best show" or accomplishment,
but for those who have put in a long time commitment and contributed
EXTRAORDINARILY in the best spirit of letterboxing. The standards we
have chosen are purposefully very high to acknowledge those few
individuals who have already attained them, and those who are
following in their footsteps. They include:

1. A time commitment of having been involved in letterboxing for a
minimum of 5 years (this is, after all, a "lifetime" achievement
award, so "time-in" definitely counts! :-)

2. A creative output of 100 or more "equal opportunity / equal
chance" letterbox plants (i.e., "complete" letterboxes planted with
stamps, logbook and clues which are available freely and openly to the
general public - not hitchers, WOM's, PLBs or such like things which
only move in select circles, but rather those boxes that fit the
original LbNA philosophy proposed by Erik and Susan Davis, whereby
"any child can go to a computer, print out clues, and take a parent on
an adventure", or something like that - whether they actually find the
box or not! :-)

3. A minimum combined count of PFX 500, as listed on our web page
(see http://alum.wpi.edu/~p_miner/Letterboxes.html ), which we feel is
a good indication of a "well rounded letterboxer", who not only plants
but takes the time to see what other letterboxers have planted, and
makes an effort to meet some of them as well.

4. A spirit of graciousness and kindness that has been beneficial to
the letterboxing community (we certainly don't care to honor anyone
who would use letterboxing to intentionally cause trouble, hurt or
harm to others - this award is for people of "high quality character"!
:-)

Anyway, we will be announcing this year's honorary recipients of the
"Letterboxing Lifetime Achievement Award" sometime next week. I think
everyone will agree that these special people definitely "fit the
bill" and deserve a little recognition for all their hard work of the
"early years" that so many other letterboxers have now been building
upon! More next week ...

Cheers,

Wanda and Pete of RI
P138 F8520 X970