well it was raining...so where do you goto look for stuff when it rains?..... a cave? so went to look for a cave... and found one. entrance had several pennies etc... had to crawl for a ways on hands and knees then a little bit a belly action... got to the back and worked our way forward.... lots of beer cans (old steel beer cans) all buried about a foot down... got about a 1/3 the way out and got a low tone... been getting them with beer cans but figured what the heck.. someone had to lose something crawling back in here... dug and found the lid to a skippy peanut butter jar which was attached to the jar wrapped in electrical tape... hmmm.. shook it and something was rattling around in there.... couldn't open the jar so we put it in the bucket and kept looking.. more pennies and a dime... will have to clean them up... got home and opened the jar... used a cement floor which worked well.... inside was a pair of roy orbison style sunglasses, a magnifiying glass, several playing cards taped together, an antler necklace on a leather thong, a note in a pill bottle and a 10k jostens gold class ring from 1962 cystal lake high...., a photograph of a guy in a black leather jacket in front of a swingset and a newspaper clipping...
unfortunately the papers where so damp that unfolding them to read it was nigh impossible... was able to see that it was addressed to dear finder... the middle of the note was unlegible.. and the end which stated it was buried in 1965... ending with a signature of t.m.b.
the newspaper clipping was also unlegible.... figure the guy had to be around 21 when he buried it .. maybe drafted? my history isn't so good.. maybe he buried it to leave something if he didn't make it back from vietnam? anyhow can't figure out what the magnifying glass was for.. kinda think it was to make out the clues on the playing cards etc.. but they got damp and i don't think they will be salvageable....
so .. think i can find someone fom crystal lake high? crystal lake is about an hour and half from here... three high schools are listed.... central, south and a third i've yet to find .. the ring has a big c and a big i on the sides.. anyone else try to research an old class ring? was surprised it was there as it says 10k on the inside and is heavy.. same company made mine.. i think it's jostens....probably mispelled it...
brian
p.s. used the bh for the find... didn't want to beat up the fisher in the cave... guess i should have posted this in the bh forum...sorry...i'll cut and paste it there.. too much typing to start over...
