The North Georgia Treasure Hunt has treasure, adventure and surprises. The easy level is where you hunt for promotional coupons not available to the general public. The medium level is where you can create or search for adventure. On the hard level you are placed on one of 30 teams. Your ships manifest lets you find and connect to your team or find other teams to play against. The ships manifest works like an interactive guest book. It lets you find people who just checked in a few minutes ago or who regularly visit that location. This could be anyone wandering around a State Fair for a just day, or at a concert or game for an hour or two. If they choose, they can list their exact seat at a stadium, if they are at a beach they can take a picture of their towel, or a picture of their dog at a dog park. You will know if Pirates you can play with or challenge ever visited your favorite sports bar, HOA clubhouse or favorite spot. Here is the best part, no phone permissions or app downloads are needed!
Your team competes against other teams to turn a “Special Hero” into a “Super Hero.” You plunder British booty with recreational sports, art, music and more. If you swear and spit to be a patriotic pirate of 1776, you can help to create an interactive TV series and introduce a new reality based genre called “Altruistic Comedy.”
Someone from the winning team can become “President For A Day.”
The North Georgia Treasure Hunt starts in Dahlonega Georgia, just like the very first treasure hunt for gold in 1829. The treasure hunt goes on all year with the awards at the Cumming City Center on the third Sunday in July. This 3rd Sunday is National Ice Cream Day. Mayor Tom Brumbalow of Cumming has made a proclamation that this day will also be called the “North Georgia Treasure Hunt” and the City of Cumming shall be the birthplace for it. On this day, ice cream rewards will be given to volunteers!
You play to win the greatest treasure of all, the pursuit of happiness called the American Spirit!
Easy – Top of the treasure page, Medium – Bottom of the Treasure Page, Hard – Pirates Page!
A few times a year there is a special event called a “Water Carnival.” If you play on the Medium or Hard level, click on “1776.”
The American Spirit was created on Christmas Day 1776. Three groups of volunteer marines were to cross the Delaware River and battle the British. Colonel Cadwalader with his 1800 men and James Ewings with his 800 men turned back due to a ferocious Christmas storm. It took George Washington 11 hours to cross the 300 yards of the Delaware River with 2,400 patriotic volunteers using fishing boats, hunting weapons and farm tools to battle a well trained, well equipped British army dug into the city of Trenton.
As the patriots got closer to the British, instead of a surprise attack, front and center unarmed musicians marched into battle playing the fife and drum to call out the British to fight. All of George Washington’s men were singing “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and even dancing as they advanced into battle.
The British were shocked, surprised, demoralized and fought poorly. The patriots were energized, fought courageously and won. That is how the American Spirit was used as a weapon to defeat the British.
To this day, “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” is the number one song played in fife and drum competitions. The story of the American spirit spread to other patriots and we won our independence. It has continued to this day and USA soldiers are known for their American Fighting Spirit.
The Star Spangled Banner was written by John Frances Key in 1813. Before that “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” a song that mocked the British was our unofficial national anthem.
If you are on a volunteer mission called a “Treasure Hunt,” to prove you are not a British spy, you can be challenged with a few pirate coins called “Loony,” to sing the first line of Yankee Doodle Dandy. If you don’t sing and dance heartily, (Or sing more than the first line!) you are a British spy! You will surrender the booty and could be given a “Booby Prize,” keel hauled or walk the plank.
The place where Yankee Doodle Dandy was sung the most often and with the greatest cheer and spirit was at the Tun Tavern. This was at Water Street and Tun Alley across the street from “Washingtons Wharf” on the Delaware River.
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Paul Jones and many other founding fathers were at Independence Hall during the day and at the Tun Tavern in the evenings. During the day they crafted the declaration of independence and the constitution. During the evenings they drank beer and recruited volunteer Marines at the Tun Tavern. Yankee Doodle Dandy, sung to mock the British, was the most popular song at the Tun Tavern. Everybody sang it loudly with all the Spirit they had. The Marines raised their flag for the first time at the Tun Tavern. The Marine Slogan is “Born in a bar.”
A place known by the British as the “Pirate Dive Bar.”
The marines were an innovative mix of volunteers. Why did they volunteer?
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