Good form, Colfax County! This was a nice solid example of Renaissance Revival. Even better was that I got to photograph it before the patriotic display went up!
Here was a team assembled, pulling poles with flags off a trailer and placing them around the edge of the grounds, about half a dozen men with a photographer (I assume they represented a local civic organization). I didn’t want to disturb them, so I went to the other end of the block from them to do my own photography. I’m not sure they even noticed me, but it didn’t matter because I was in and out in a few minutes. As a sidenote, I later learned that they town and county are named after former Vice President and Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax. This adds this county to the list of seats and counties that form names such as Grant County, Borden County, and Jones County among others.
As for the cache, there’s always a cemetery. The town cemetery seemed unusually active for a town so small. When I arrived, there was one vehicle driving out and inside a woman walking her dog. Soon after I arrived, another vehicle came in and the dog walker when over to it and began a conversation with the obviously recognized occupant. I know that people can get weird about caches in cemeteries so when I got to the fenceline location of the cache, I made a big show of photographing the town from that vantage. In the process, I managed to get the log from the bison, and return it signed without muss or fuss. When another vehicle pulled in and joined the ongoing conversation with the dog walker, I started to feel it was getting too hot for my preference, so I finished up quickly and got moving ASAP. Luckily, the phone connection actually worked in Schuyler so it was logged and forgotten as I continued along to…
Geocaching While Black 