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This is the time of year when we wait for a storm to cut the beaches and uncover treasure. The National Hurricane Center map is showing this system that is expected to become a depression in a day or two. Here is what they say.
Environmental conditions appear conducive for additional development, and a tropical depression is
likely to form over the next day or two. This system is expected to
move westward at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central
tropical Atlantic through the middle part of the week.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...high...90 percent.Windy.com is not showing any big surf in the next few days, and when I look at the predictions for three models, I don't see this bringing much of anything to our area. Still, keep watching.
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Other than Copper Culture, I suspect that the indigenous of North America were involved in mining more than is generally acknowledged.
Here is an excerpt from an interesting article.
Indians in the region began trading large quantities of lead (which provided greater economic stability than fur) with Americans, who often used it in the manufacture of ammunition. Unlike most gold and silver rushes during the 1800s, in which Native people merely responded to the mining booms in their midst, Indian lead-mining success in Illinois and Wisconsin actually attracted Euro-American settlers. The white miners, however, soon challenged Native land tenure in the region...
Here is the link for the rest of the article.
I just made some photos of some old Castoria bottles. I previously posted those labeled Dr. S. Pitcher's, Here is one labeled Chas. A. Fletcher's.
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| Chas. H. Fletcher's CASTORIA embossed bottle. |
I just added these to my tgbottlebarn.blogspot.com site, which also shows a Dr. S. Pitcher's Castoria bottle. I've found at least two bottles labeled Fletcher's bottles and one with the Pitcher's label. The embossing on the two Fletcher's bottles are slightly different and the Fletcher's bottles are about a quarter inch shorter than the Pitcher's bottle. I posted them in the tgbottlebarn.blogspot.com site.
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Thousands of people have been reading the treasurebeachereport.blogspot.com posts every day lately. I don't know if they are mostly new readers or people that are going back and looking at some of the old forgotten posts.
One of the good posts that was getting a lot of views was one on testing your metal detector. Three coins were used.
Here is the link.
https://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2018/03/31018-report-experimenting-to-learn.htm
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Keep watching the Atlantic. It is that time of year.
There might be a little sand movement from the southwest winds on the beaches vulnerable to the south, but I'm not expecting much.
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