Watson Adventures' Secrets of East Village Scavenger Hunt FREE April 18, 2009

Watson Adventures, one of the country’s longest-running scavenger hunt companies, will celebrate its 10th anniversary and 100,000th hunter with a day of free scavenger hunts on April 18. In New York, we invite you to join us on one of the following hunts:

Watson Adventures’ Secrets of the East Village Scavenger Hunt
April 18, 4 to 6:30 p.m.
Uncover the radical roots of this neighborhood as you visit the haunts of Charlie Parker, Washington Irving, Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Abraham Lincoln, Lenny Bruce, Peter Stuyvesant, Carrie Bradshaw, Iggy Pop, W.H. Auden, Joey Ramone, Madonna and even Leon Trotsky and Dom DeLuise. Highlights include TV and movie locations, St. Mark’s Church, Tompkins Square Park, Indian restaurant row, hurly-burly St. Mark’s Place, the last remnant of the Fillmore East, a mini Ukraine and the secret of The Alamo.

FREE with advance reservation via http://WatsonAdventures.com. Limited availability. Reservations can be made beginning April 14. Exact meeting place details are provided once a reservation is made. No walkup tickets are available.

***Please note that you MUST make an advance reservation directly via http://WatsonAdventures.com to attend in addition to RSVPing via http://upcoming.yahoo.com.***

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Watson Adventures offers hunts to the public several weekends a month, and stages corporate and private scavenger hunts and team-building activities throughout the U.S. To see the complete hunt schedule and learn about private hunts, visit http://WatsonAdventures.com.

OTHER FREE SCAVENGER HUNT DAY HUNTS INCLUDE: Visit WatsonAdventures.com to reserve tickets for any of these events.

Watson Adventures’ Meatpacking District Dash Scavenger Hunt, April 18, 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Discover this exciting, trendy neighborhood on a hunt that reveals the best of its chic sights, buzzing sounds, rough-and-tumble textures, savory tastes and enticing aromas. A pinch of Chelsea and a touch of the West Village are also featured. Highlights include Chelsea Market (birthplace of the Oreo), glitzy new restaurants, hotels and stores, a hotel that took in survivors from the Titanic, movie locations, glimpses of the abandoned High Line (an elevated railway being turned into a park), and a prior home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Watson Adventures’ Princeton Prowl Scavenger Hunt, April 18, 2 to 4:30 p.m.
Find out why our staff loves this whirlwind tour of the best of Princeton, New Jersey, and the delightful Princeton University campus. The historic town–where George Washington thwarted the British–and the stunning campus combine to provide a hunt landscape that is filled with history, outdoor sculptures, dramatic Gothic and ivy-clad buildings, goofy gargoyles, famous Americans and amazing views. Guest stars include Russell Crowe (from locations for A Beautiful Mind), F. Scott Fitzgerald, John F. Kennedy, Bob Dylan, Aaron Burr, Woodrow Wilson, Albert Einstein, David Duchovny of The X-Files, Meg Ryan (in the movie I.Q.) and an enemy bulldog.

Watson Adventures’ Secrets of Wall Street Scavenger Hunt, April 18, 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Uncover the layers of history and mystery in Lower Manhattan, along twisty streets laid out by the Dutch, through the canyons of finance with majestic Jazz Age skyscrapers, down the ticker-tape parade route’s Canyon of Heroes and out to the expansive harbor views of Battery Park. You’ll walk in the footsteps of Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Peter Stuyvesant, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, anarchists, aviators, modern artists, rioting slaves and patriots. You’ll also discover movie locations from Ghostbusters, Men in Black, Working Girl, National Treasure and The Day After Tomorrow.

Official Website: http://www.watsonadventures.com