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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Danjohnson, post: 2562955, member: 80228&quot;]History is a big part of collecting for me as well. I do a lot of metal detecting in Iowa and Nebraska, lots of ghost and semi-ghost towns. To say I feel alienated or melancholy by the state of middle America would be an understatement of immense proportions.</p><p><br /></p><p>One town I&#039;ve visited on several occasions is named Gravity. The sign when entering the town reads &quot;If Gravity fails, the whole World goes with it.&quot; And yet it is barely a town any longer. No &quot;Downtown&quot;, only a block or two of houses and a couple of abandoned churches. Gravity has indeed&nbsp; failed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The town park is still cared for, a civil war memorial statue is the centerpiece, erected around 1916. The names of donors that provided funding for the statue are carved in the sidewalk leading to the memorial. The town Blacksmith, General Merchandise, Butcher, etc...</p><p><br /></p><p>I still get a sense of the town that existed before time imposed its will. I&#039;ve found coins from as far back as the 1890&#039;s and I swear sometimes I can feel the spirit of the previous holders. I&#039;ve spent time matching the names from the sidewalk with gravestones in the town cemetery and I wonder if they would be saddened by the current state of things?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well, guess I&#039;m getting a bit deep.[ATTACH=full]552782[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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