The Webster County Courthouse was somewhat better than Lebanon’s (and head and shoulders over Buffalo), but still not quite what I might have hoped for. I wasn’t going to complain though. After my travails in Laclede County, I was ready for a cache that was a little less intensive and my chosen cache was on the other side of the courthouse from where I parked.
If you are not familiar with Edwin Hubble, you should be. I can guarantee that if you have marveled at a stunning photograph from the celestial sphere in the last three decades, it was taken by the space telescope that bears his name. His primary accomplishments were proving that many celestial objects originally thought to be nebulae were actually other galaxies and then using Cepheid variables to find their distances away, resulting in Hubble’s Law and laying the groundwork for proving the expanding universe. And all of that began with his birth in humble Marshfield. If a place can have a claim to fame, that’s a pretty good one as far as I’m concerned. His memory is preserved both by the county in many forms, the most obvious of which being a replica of the Hubble Space Telescope, placed in orbit in 1990, that has been providing detailed and stunning imagery for the scientist and layman alike for decades. Of course someone put a Virtual there! I submitted the appropriate answers to the CO and then logged it, awarding one of my stingily hoarded favorite points because of course I did! Then it was back to the car and heading back to Texas. But I had on last bit of unfinished business to take care of in…
Geocaching While Black 