The rock painting craze that started in Hamilton New Jersey and spread to Levittown late last year has found another home in historic Bristol Borough.
Jaime Eschbach, the Levittown resident who began L-Town Rocks last year, is responsible for bringing the trend over from New Jersey. The original goal of the painting was to get kids and parents outside to spend time together as a family and away from electronics.
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The project functions almost like geocaching. Instead of using GPS to locate the treasures, though, you find them by being out in the community.
When you find a rock, you can do one of three things. The first and simplest is simply leaving the rock where you found it. If that isn’t enough interactivity, you can re-hide it, and if you really like it, you can take it home. When players take rocks home, they are encouraged to replace it with a rock they painted.
The newest group and Facebook page follows the lead of the Levittown page and the Hamilton group that came before it. Nichole Musgrove founded the Bristol Borough rock hunters’ page, Bristol Boro Rocks #Bristolbororocks.
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“It seemed like everyone had to go to Falls Park to get involved and I wanted to take advantage of having the wharf in our town,” Musgrove said.
“I love that all ages can get involved, young and old. it gives people a reason to be creative and paint some cool rocks and gets people out of the house to look for them,” she explained.
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So far, the only problem with the group seems to be that the rocks people find are too precious to give up.
“We ask that you paint and hide rocks and if you find one do one of three things. Leave it, re-hide or if you keep it replace it with your own masterpiece that way they aren’t disappearing,” Musgrove said.
The group has more than 500 members and is filled with posts of artists painting rocks and the people who are finding them.
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Musgrove started the Facebook page when she started painting rocks in November of last year to make communication among participants easier.
