The winners of this year's Crystal Easter Egg Hunt are Amy Barron, of Huntersville, NC, and Maddie Day, of Bakersville, who worked together as a team to solve the clues and find the egg.
Amy returned her $150 share of the cash prize to the Bakersville Improvement Group.
The clues to the Egg's location were as follows [answers in RED]:
- Bakersville was not the location of the first county seat of Mitchell county. That honor went to the community of...[DAVIS]..., also known as... [CHILDSVILLE].
- [J.W. BOWMAN]...in 1868 introduced a bill in the State Legislature to allow people in his county to vote on the location of their seat of government.
- In 1893, events evolving around the...[WHITSON]...brothers, charged with murder, escalated in national newspapers including the New York Times to become known as the... [BAKERSVILLE RIOT].
- In the 1870's, the Bakersville newspaper of record was entitled... [THE ROAN MOUNTAIN REPUBLICAN].
- A Bakersville native,...[WAITS ANDERSON]...,was convicted of murdering 3 men, escaped jail and later became a Secret Services agent who guarded President William McKinley.
- Unscramble the following Word Jumbles:
L - B - W - O - E - B
[ANSWER: W - O - B - B - L - E]
O - L - F - K - C
[ANSWER: F - L - O - C - K]
E - C - E - M - E
[ANSWER: E - M - C - E - E]
L - X - E - A - R
[ANSWER: R - E - L - A - X]
Use the [highlighted] letters to solve the final clue:
Look in the ... M - C - B - E - E ... F - L - O - W - E - R ... B - O - X ... [outside the Historical Society].
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