Thursday night was beautiful in Centennial Park. The park was filled with people on their cell phones and parking lots were filled with cars of people holding laptops — huh?
Word was out that at 6:15 p.m. the 3rd and final clue for the Nashville Treasure hunt would be posted on the Cashville Gold & Silver Buyers website. People on cell phones had family and friends at home watching the website, people in cars were refreshing their laptop screens to see the clue as soon as it was posted. At exactly the appointed time we watched waves of people start running through the park to the area with the quaint stone bridge in the flower garden at the park.
A handful of people were craning their necks under the bridge.
By 6:18 someone yelled “I found it” and took off running.
Bip and Mandy became gold medal winners after days of searching the park for the faux-gold coin that they will trade to Cashville Gold & Silver Buyers for a gold coin that they can keep or sell back to the company for $500.
Plenty of treasure hunters came up and congratulated the winners and were enthusiastic to learn that another treasure would be hidden in Nashville in the near future.
Among the neatest thing to come from this treasure hunt were the terrific emails we got from hunters. A mother and daughter who spent quality time together hunting for the coin in earnest, a young mother who enjoyed the thrill of the seek while getting her babies out in strollers to enjoy the fresh air, and people who just wrote to say thank you for creating a fun distraction from the routine of every day living in a down economy.
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