Mill Ruins Park - Wrap-Up
4 October 2007It was a perfectly beautiful day to play Least Dangerous Game on September 22nd. It was a sunny day, and many people were out enjoying the weather like myself. But, unlike myself, they were not hiding from technophiles.
My hiding spot this week was at Mill Ruins Park, which I didn’t even know existed. I was delighted to visit someplace with “ruins” in its name. Other blogs might make a joke about Britney Spears here. I am not those blogs. Let’s go through the clues that were given.
10101
The park officially opened on October 1st, 2001. And you thought it was binary code. I am not a computer! Yet.
Side note, I hate the Steve Miller Band
Mill is in the name, and I do hate the Steve Miller Band. Abracadabra is the worst song there ever was and ever will be.
Rumps kill rain
Here is your anagram for the day. This is the clue that solved it for the winners. But I guess they were lazy, as they didn’t find me for another hour and a half. What’s the deal?
Why Minneapolis was born like a phoenix
The mill industry along the Mississippi created the booming town of Minneapolis. But it was booming in other ways as well. Flour mills were very explosive. They would explode, taking other mills with them. And new mills would simply be put up over their ruins.
Ozymandias
Ozymandias is a poem about ruins found in an ancient land. While Minnesota isn’t exactly ancient, we have our ruins. And that bunk Kensington Runestone doesn’t count.
Another City Pages 2007 Best Of.
The Mill Ruins Park is the Best Place To Take Out-Of-Town Guests. According to the City Pages, at least. I’d have to agree, in so much that it’s better than showing them the spoon bridge.
Not the Khmer temples of Angkor Wat.
Straight from the City Pages article, Mill Ruins Park aren’t the greatest ruins left standing the world over. But they are impressive in their own way. A Google search should reveal everything pretty quickly at this point.
44.980358-93.257822
GPS coordinates of my exact locations. It can’t get much easier than that. Also, Mill Ruins Park doesn’t have much of an address.
At this point, my friend Joe Bozic and his wife found me after taking their damn time. They won a wonderful set of books from James Lileks.
Then, on my way back across the Stone Arch Bridge to my free parking, I met Graham Lampa who found me by the GPS coordinates.
It was a great day to relax in a park reading The Stand and waiting for people to find me. Let’s do it again in two days, yeah?
One Response to “Mill Ruins Park - Wrap-Up”
October 4th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Joe Bozic! I enjoy his work at the BNW.
That’s still crazy I was right nearby, on accident. I need a phone with internet access so I can Google this stuff on the fly.