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The Great North Carolina Troll Hunt

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Jason

Decoding the Grandmother Tree

Every good scavenger hunt starts with a single clue, but ours actually began back in July with a giant named Big Pete. After finding him resting in Charlotte, my wife and I knew we had to complete the rest of Thomas Dambo’s North Carolina troll trail. That meant hitting the road this past Thursday to track down the remaining members of the recycled-wood family and piece together the secret they were guarding.

These twenty rhymes outline the secret.

THE GRANDMOTHER TREE Between these 20 rhymes, you’ll meet some different characters Seven trolls, a big old tree, and then you. You’re the narrator First, the trolls, a mother and a father, and their fivelings They grew up in a forest somewhere under the horizon And then, second is the Grandmother, a mighty ancient tree The beacon of the forest. Without her, they all grow aimlessly And then the third is you. Your name is written in the caption In the center of the action, you decide what’s next to happen But one species, all trolls, has learned to fear through evolution Invasive, a pollution. You must never trust a human A human seeks the oldest trees, to kill and cut them down And chop it up in tiny pieces, haul it, burn it in their town And so the trolls have cast a spell, enchanted the Grandmother Tree So no human can find her. Now she looks like any other tree But every time the moon is dark, the red wolves howl and bark This is the sign that sparks the start, the trolls to search the park Here they go is a secret. You can come if you can keep it Swear to never speak it, eat it, never to repeat it One troll is in Charlotte, one in High Point, five in Dix Park Seven secret symbols on the trollmap. You must start THOMAS DAMBO

Our first stop took us through High Point to find Little Sally. There is something surreal about walking into a quiet patch of nature and finding a massive, expressive wooden creature holding onto a tree.

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