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Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/8/2004 11:56:08 AM    pvg_320   Posts: 19 Joined: 8/12/2003 From: Olathe, Kansas USA Status: offline Just curious where we're all from - many of you have a location filled out, but a lot do not. Kansas City area here - town of Olathe. Santa Fe trail supply stop, and one of the older towns in Kansas. Oldest houses still standing probably from late 1850's early 1860s, but the majority of the old houses are from 1870-1900. Have done one dig in town, and found a cobalt key mold base! Not a good start. Hoping to hit a better site this summer when I have time. My best find so far has been a crude local med dated Jan 18 1881, sticking out of the top layers of a collapsed cellar in the woods. Anyone else near the Kansas City area? I've got some clients in E Alabama (Opelika), SE Ohio (Gallipolis), New Hampshire (Laconia), and Maryland (Clinton) that I may travel to in the next 6 months, so interested in hearing from anyone in those areas as well - I would really enjoy helping out on a dig. < Message edited by pvg_320 -- 6/8/2004 11:57:36 AM > Post #: 1

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/8/2004 3:40:39 PM    Pontiled   Posts: 411 Joined: 8/27/2003 Status: offline I'm in God-forsaken Henderson, North Carolina, about 20 miles south of the Great State of Virginia! Yep, we will move back to Virginia as soon as the house has a buyer. Three bedrooms, 2 full baths, and everything else you cvan imagine, sitting on 3/4 acres with a huge pond out back, and no one seems interested or they can't afford it! Been digging since the mid-1960's, written many books on the hobby as well as numerous articles, and provide informational service to museums. My specialty is bottles from the Civil War period (1861-1865). So, how about it out there? _____________________________ Mike Russell Author of: The Collector's Guide to Civil War Period Bottles and Jars -- Third Edition (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 2

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/8/2004 4:54:41 PM    luvtodig   Posts: 88 Joined: 4/30/2004 From: Southern Illinois Status: offline Hey Pontiled sounds like you "love" where you live...lol..just kidding..I am in Sounthern Illinois, very rural area, nearest "big" town is Carbondale, where the university is, about 60 miles away..I started digging in the 80's..I am new to this area, we have not been out too much yet...also the rain, and tornados are keeping us near to the house..can't wait to explore this whole area...keep al the pics coming guys, it is helping me a lot...thanks! _____________________________ Susanne (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 3

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/8/2004 5:13:07 PM    Jules   Posts: 191 Joined: 9/16/2003 From: NE Pennsylvania Status: offline I'm from Northeastern Pennsylvania, home of the Pocono's...and...not much else. Got interested in bottles as a youngun' at my grandparents farm (alright, there wasn't much else to do there, but thats beside the point) and never outgrew "Playing in the dirt" Now if the weather and the critters would just cooperate.... ~Julie (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 4

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/8/2004 10:49:58 PM    Pontiled   Posts: 411 Joined: 8/27/2003 Status: offline Susanne and Julie, you're both in some good areas to dig, it's the "finding" the spots to dig and getting permission to dig. I used to go up to Jamestown, N.Y., to dig an old town dump (many good memories of that) and the rural areas around Jamestown. Down in Good Old Virginia, I've dug many Civil War sites that were quite productive. Hang in there and tell us what you find! By the way, it's absolutely great to see 2 young ladies digging. Now, if I can get my other daughter interested, I'd be a happy Dad. _____________________________ Mike Russell Author of: The Collector's Guide to Civil War Period Bottles and Jars -- Third Edition (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 5

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 12:17:33 AM    luvtodig   Posts: 88 Joined: 4/30/2004 From: Southern Illinois Status: offline Pontiled..thank-you for the "young lady" tag wish I was in my heart yes! I got my 20 year old daughter intrested in bottle digging when she was just a little one, her and her brother went with us everywhere..we dug in Wash state..it was quite a education for my kids growing up..my daughter still loves old things, and would go out in a heartbeat to dig today..so hang in there with your girls, hopefuly they will learn to love it too I have been doing research here, maps and such, soon I hope we will be able to get out there and get dirty take care! _____________________________ Susanne (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 6

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 5:37:32 AM    soilandglass   Posts: 24 Joined: 6/4/2004 From: manchester england Status: offline MANCHESTER ENGLAND UK. (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 7

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 1:20:31 PM    David Osborn   Posts: 47 Joined: 6/17/2003 Status: offline Omaha Nebraska, no diggers here besides my intended and myself that i know of. I have lots of old bottles displayed in my used bookshop to get the old-timers motivated to talk about the dumps and sites. I do ravines, hills, abandoned areas. I also do artwork on commission if anyone wants to look ! -Dave (and Terri) PS: That isn't Terri ! :) Attachment (1) (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 8

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 1:57:21 PM    Jules   Posts: 191 Joined: 9/16/2003 From: NE Pennsylvania Status: offline Hi Mike! Lucky me, I got my diggin' site built right in. As I've posted before, I bought my grandparents farm, built in the early 1860's. I know where they dumped, and the people before them...right at the edge of the field in a swampy area that was no good for anything else. Hopefully it gave all those old bottles a nice, cushy landing. <grin> Unfortunately it's been a VERY wet spring here, and can't really dig yet without the earth oozing back into my newly dug holes in 30 seconds flat. Patience is a virtue. Oh, and yes, there is that lovely black bear, complete with new cub, that decided to take up residence. I swear I did something to anger the karma gods. Only upside to it is the fact that, as I'm a "local" and everyone knows everyone around here, permissions are easy to come by. "Ohhhh yes...your Grandfather was <insert name here> I remember you when you were just a baby! How you've grown! How is your <insert the rest of the family tree here>? Of course you can...but you want to do What? Looking for WHAT?!?!" One of these days I'll get it all together, until then, I'll keep enjoying everyone elses posts. Regards, ~Julie (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 9

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 2:42:26 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1160 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Hey Ya'll, I'm from North Texas. What they call the panhandle. We don't have too much to dig around here that is pre 1875. Me and my diggin buddie have been working an Indian Wars Military site off and on for a couple of years. I did spend 3 of my 46 years down in South Mississippi but unfortunately at that particular time of my life, all I had on my mind was football and girls! A bottle was just a convienant way to drink a beverage. Happy Diggin, Kelley (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 10

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 3:13:21 PM    Pontiled   Posts: 411 Joined: 8/27/2003 Status: offline Hey Kelley, you weren't near Biloxi, Miss., were you? I spent a year there while in uniform. That place has certainly changed! _____________________________ Mike Russell Author of: The Collector's Guide to Civil War Period Bottles and Jars -- Third Edition (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 11

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 5:17:18 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1160 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Hey Mike, I wasn't too far from Biloxi. I used to go to both Biloxi, and Gulfport to the beach in the summer. I lived in a map dot called Ellisville. It was between Hattisburg and Laurel. It was in Jones County which during the Civil War was a seperate state in the union (I was told.) I never researched that out as I was a 15 year old transplanted Texan and didn't know, or care squat about history at that time! (Oh the mistakes we make at a tender age ) Maybe you or someone knows if that was true? Thanks, Kelley (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 12

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 8:07:49 PM    woody   Posts: 1683 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: online I call New Hampshire home, now. I graduated Berklee College of Music in 1977. I spent 6 years in the U.S.M.C. as a drummer in the Marine Band. I spent time in Parris Island, S.C.. Little Creek, Va.(Naval School of Music), Camp LeJeune, N.C. (Tarheel state), a year in Okinawa, Japan, three years at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California. I've been to Japan, Guam, Philipines, Korea and Australia (Canberra, Sidney and Melbourne), Canada, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas (Virgin Islands). I like the slower and mellower lifestyle of New Hampshire, not to mention all the good bottle dumps and Stoddard and Keene glass. Sandwich glass, too. I work in a hardware store and play drums with my band. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 13

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/9/2004 10:16:36 PM    leebran20 Posts: 84 Joined: 2/18/2004 From: Honolulu, Hawaii Status: offline Born, raised and still living and digging whenever I can in Honolulu, HI, though I spent my four years of college at Claremont McKenna in SoCal. I'm a writer and editor; started out covering all types of sports but mostly now focus on water sports like surfing. Started collecting bottles by surface hunting as an early teen, and got out of it by the time I was around 16. Took about 12 years before I was bit by the bug again and forever more: I was at the news desk when the president of the state bottle club came in to try to get some coverage of the upcoming annual show; I overheard him talking about it, went over and started talking to him, and the Features editor told me to write a story on it since I was familiar with it. Here's the link if you're interested: starbulletin.com/2001/06/21/features/story1.html - 12k Completely overcome with the sickness since then and going strong now for the last three years. Dug just one pontiled pit during this time, but we do have a disproportionately large number of different types of bimal sodas from 1870-1915 to be found for a small state. And local milks do extremely well on the market here too. _____________________________ Brandon "In Mud We Must" (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 14

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/10/2004 1:02:29 AM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: offline Digging for over a year now in Gig Harbor, WA. It's seperated from Tacoma by the Narrows Bridge, and is about 40 minutes south of Seattle. The area was never very commercial, so all dumps are random farm sites all over. It's fun, and it's always an adventure to find a new spot! (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 15

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/10/2004 4:08:36 AM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline I'm from Cockatoo/mount Burnett in the state of Victoria in Australia, it's about an hour's drive east of Melbourne. Plenty of history around here as with most of victoria starting with the 1850's Goldrushes then a huge timber industry and now mostly spud farming (and horses), we didn't get the huge population in the early 1850's like some of the bigger goldfields (about 1000 diggers on the biggest field here compared to 60,000 plus in one camp in central Vic ) but they left a lot of goodies to find . (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 16

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/10/2004 10:45:19 AM    pvg_320   Posts: 19 Joined: 8/12/2003 From: Olathe, Kansas USA Status: offline Great responses, thanks. I got the bug early, as a 10 yr old in the UK when my dad was flying for the USAF over there. Dug lots of british Codds, poisons and fruits from a dump ("tip" as we were told to call them!) near a friends house in Beachamwell in the early 1980s. Attrition set in and they all were broken in various moves. Moved back to the states and forgot all about bottles until I was out of grad school...and now here I am. Apparently the bottles never stopped calling to me, I just wasn't listening :) Good to see a Southern Illinois reference, I was born in Pinckneyville and my new dig buddy went to school at Carbondale. (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 17

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/10/2004 6:01:23 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline I'm originally from New York State, lived in the Shawangunk Mtns. (foothills of the Catskills), moved to Boston in 73' finally to Westbrook, Maine in 77'. Love the state for it's ocean, mountains, forests etc., dislike it's politics - too many imports from Massachusetts coming in trying to change the soul of Maine! Many towns in southern Maine can't even say 'Christmas' in school anymore, it's now a 'Seasonal Holiday' grrrrrr. < Message edited by Maine Digger -- 6/10/2004 6:03:02 PM > _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 18

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/10/2004 6:20:14 PM    Pontiled   Posts: 411 Joined: 8/27/2003 Status: offline pvg-320, what did your Dad fly for the USAF? I loved the big bird (B-52's) during the Vietnam War. _____________________________ Mike Russell Author of: The Collector's Guide to Civil War Period Bottles and Jars -- Third Edition (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 19

RE: Where do you live? And where do you dig? - 6/10/2004 9:28:45 PM    pvg_320   Posts: 19 Joined: 8/12/2003 From: Olathe, Kansas USA Status: offline quote: pvg-320, what did your Dad fly for the USAF? He was an F-111 right seater (among other jobs in the AF) from 1977-93. They were put out of US comission in 1996, but the Aussies still fly them out of Amberley in Queensland. They are a little faster than the big birds! But I liked them all, still do. My sister is in an AWACS squadron now...so she got a big comfortable ride. Dad has dug with me before, and I think I can get him out on another one sometime. (in reply to pvg_320) Post #: 20

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