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Associated Press - July 20, 2009 2:45 PM ET
HARVARD, Neb. (AP) - Dick Kloke says of Harvard says history was never this much fun when he was in school.
Six years ago, the 63-year-old took up geocaching by borrowing a GPS from a neighbor and teaching himself to plug in coordinates. Several of the first caches small containers with log sheets, hidden at specific geographic coordinates he found were placed there for historical reasons.
Kloke often places his own caches in historical places throughout the state, like the Naval Ammunition Depot east of Hastings. He likes to include background information on the cache pages that geocachers read.
Kloke's interest in history has recently spilled over into a project at the Harvard cemetery, where Kloke and several others are still working to properly identify the unmarked graves of 95-100 Civil War veterans.
Information from: Hastings Tribune, http://www.hastingstribune.com
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