| Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| Jamestown 400 - Our National Treasure Hunt |
On Sunday, I ran into an advertisement in World Magazine announcing a new treasure hunt. Normally these games don't interest me because I have neither the time nor concern for playing, but this one is different.
 Deep within the ancient lands of the Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown triangle, rests a treasure of historic proportions.
Hidden somewhere near or by the ancient landmarks of our colonial forefathers, lies a trove of buried treasure. Golden treasure.
Resting within a bolted wooden chest are four hundred solid gold coins with a value in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Whoever cracks the mystery of the Jamestown 400 becomes the sole owner of the treasure trove.
But to crack the code and find the four hundred gold coins, you must take a journey through history that will reveal America’s greatest national treasure — the providential hand of God in the life of this nation. Specifically, there are 400 American Gold Eagle coins buried in the historic Jamestown area in Virginia. The Jamestown 400 is not an easy treasure hunt -- it is quite challenging.
The hunt consists of three phases: the first phase begins with a mystery in the Vision Forum catalog and leads to an online journey, laced with clues in the form of codes and ciphers, and historic documents.
The first one thousand people to crack the code by March 31, 2007, will receive a special prize and be inducted into the Order of the Jamestown 400, and honorary society dedicated to the preservation of America's providential heritage.
In phase two, the one thousand super-sleuths will be narrowed down to the first one hundred to crack the second stage by May 15, 2007. The finalists will be invited to come to Jamestown for the third and final stage: physically searching for the treasure.
The winner will be announced in Jamestown, Virginia, during the week of June 18, 2007, and the Vision Forum Ministeries special Jamestown Quadricentennial Celebration.
How to get started: Everything you need to get started in the Jamestown 400 treasure hunt is contained within the pages of Vision Forum’s 2007 Providence and Perseverance catalog. You can request a free copy of the catalog by clicking here, and while you wait for it to arrive in the mail you can download the PDF version by clicking here.
First clue: There is a cryptogram on page 87 of the catalog.
Please come back often and share your progress with your fellow Steeps on this blog. I will be posting often. Godspeed and good hunting. |
posted by Joe Napalm @ 11:54 PM   |
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