The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes - A series of poetic puzzles

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 clue - The owner’s son was a driving force in bringing about its creation.

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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 clue - It’s not Mr. Emerson

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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 clue - Just ask Siri or Alexa.

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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 clue - Call for the doctor.

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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 clue - It’s what happens when your parents are actors.

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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 William, 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.