The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes - A series of poetic puzzles
Clues - Rain Snow Rivers Lakes Oceans A home in the woods. They are all linked by water.
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1.
Perhaps you have heard of it? You might
A home in the woods
A week-end retreat for a wealthy man
Now a world heritage site
and that’s all well and good
but tell us who created it, if you can?
Extra clues - The owner’s son was a driving force in bringing about its creation. Guggenheim.
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2.
Another house in the woods, but this time covered in snow.
A place where stories abound
about the family that lives there
and friends that they might know.
Somehow, the crackling fire draws the family around
With stories of long ago to share.
Who wrote this poem?
Extra clues - It’s not Mr. Emerson. Haverhill.
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3.
What he’s known for, the hydrofoil is not.
It’s a much more useful thing
Something of which we are all aware
Educating the deaf, is something for which he fought
Yet, he invented many things
to live without, we wouldn’t dare.
Extra clues - Just ask Siri or Alexa. AT&T
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4.
Who could wear such a hat?
Who could wear such a coat?
Never mind that, who could wear both of them?
He can tell you who\'s the rat.
He can tell you who’s the goat.
But who was it, is “The Final Problem”?
Extra clues - Call for the doctor. John Dickson Carr
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5.
A bust by the door to hold your hat
Grab a book from the shelf. Take a seat.
Read a poem from the dark-side’s underbelly.
Pay no attention to the bird on your hat
Don’t worry about the room’s lack of heat
Tell me now, what’s happened to my sweet “Annabel Lee”?
Extra clues - It’s what happens when your parents are actors. West Point.
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Choose from here if you must:
Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Paul Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Earle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Penn Warren, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Graham Bell, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Carlos Williams, William Henry Harrison, Robert Louis Stevenson, Martin Luther King, James Fenimore Cooper, William Howard Taft, Edgar Lee Masters, Francis Scott Key, George Bernard Shaw, John Jacob Astor.