Markers of History

I don’t intend to get into a whole lot of behind-the-scenes Markeroni minu­tia here, but since this is my first time log­ging a land­mark that wasn’t on one of the site’s exist­ing lists, I wanted to fill you in on the process, espe­cially since I’d expressed some uncer­tainty about the process for this landmark.

Since there wasn’t an urgency to my ques­tions (and I fig­ured that an expe­ri­enced Markeroon could help, given the level of my ques­tion), I used the “Ask Questions” board on the Markeroni forums. A few hours later, I received a response: the statue I posted about yes­ter­day counts as a sep­a­rate snarf from the state marker I posted about on Wednesday. I also received some ideas about what sort of photo I should sub­mit for the cat­a­log and what pos­si­bil­i­ties there were for the photo for my log book.

So this morn­ing, shortly before post­ing this, I sent in the request to add the statue as a land­mark. I expect that I won’t get my visit logged until Sunday or Monday, though, because this after­noon, I’ll leave for a church event and won’t be back home until Sunday afternoon.

That also means that this is the last Markers of History entry you can expect to see until early next week.

If you’re in the US, have a great (and safe) Memorial Day week­end, and if you’re any­where else, stay safe and have fun this week­end, too!

Update (5/26): I received the e-mail noti­fy­ing me that this had been added to the Markeroni data­base Friday evening, and I logged my visit this after­noon. I still have some ques­tions about con­tribut­ing infor­ma­tion to the cat­a­log, but my visit is recorded now.