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This is not an advertisement! However, I wandered over to my favorite shopping site today (called woot.com) and saw a nice deal on batteries. It's a trustworthy site (now owned by Amazon) and they sell stuff on overstock essentially. They have a twisted sense of humor..fun to read the...

I managed a short trip to scout for the cellar holes a friend told me about. Well, I found a string of six structures and that was in only about thirty minutes of searching. One was most certainly a mill long ago (it had a huge stacked stone center column on the inside..most like support for...

I stopped by a small town park where I live (it is one lot wide and goes back a ways following a stream) which, as far as I can tell is close to where a bank sat 150 years ago. Five minutes into it I was. Heckling out around the base of an old tree and got this hit on the Ace350 coming up as an...

Went to a school yard that had been a prison farm way back. I figured it would be all pull tabs and bottle caps and I was mostly correct. But I did find some wheaties at a far corner of the field. I followed those to some better targets: The quarter was my first silver ever. It was a better...

I've been going out on short hunts but it seems like someone has been there before me wherever I go. I've had some luck finding historical sites and digging up artifacts to prove it (old blacksmithed pulley, nails and hinges from a long lost barn, etc...) but haven't found coins older than mid...

Background: I've been doing loads of historical research on the trails followed by Rochambeau during the Civil War. The French army travelled through Connecticut and stopped in a number of places. I have made it a goal to identify one of their camps and have read every history, diary entry...

Hello all and thanks for the knowledge I've already gleaned from your pages. I'm a history nut from central CT who has recently caught the bug. I have been fascinated by the hunt for spaces that have remained unchanged for hundreds of years but only recently realized that I should be out there...