Featured The Orangeburg Story

Yes, this is - as previously announced - a heavily embellished (fictionalized) tale. But like many Hollywood blockbusters, it does come prefaced with a "based on actual events" clause.

Well, sort of. It is based on the bare bones of a story that was represented as true when told to me, and like I said earlier, I found the original tale both tantalizing and plausible.

This retelling has to rely heavily on fiction, since the original story as told to me in 1994 was very sparse on details. There is good reason for that. The discovery of the Orangeburg Hoard - if it existed - and its subsequent purchase, resale, and dispersal - were cloaked in secrecy. More on that later, perhaps.

So I've had to fill in the gaps in the story with some imagination. But I've tried to imagine it realistically, if you know what I mean.

You're indeed reading a work of short fiction, but hopefully it's entertaining, and remember - it is entirely possible that something similar to this did happen in or around Orangeburg, SC in 1989, in the wake of Hurricane Hugo.

I'm not sure we'll ever know the true story, so I'm making one up to fulfill my need to know.

 

Oh, how well I know.

Case in point: take Hurricane Irma last year, for example.

(The storm that blew down those trees in the picture I posted in Post #1.)

We evacuated inland, to Jesup, GA, where my in-laws live.

So I texted my mother and told her we were safe in Jesup.

So she texted my sister to tell her we had gone to Jesup to flee the hurricane.

But autocorrect made her tell my sister we had "gone to Jesus."

Which sort of had the opposite effect from what was intended.

 

Where are we?

Oh yeah. We've covered the Confederate currency and the silver, pretty much.

There's still those Mason jars...

Know I said I'd wrap this up Sunday, but I've been having WAY too much fun milking it for all it's worth - er - umm - stretching it out a bit.

It's been a fun creative writing exercise, if nothing else. Thanks for the attention.

*yawn* Gettin' kinda tired now. I'm actually off work tonight (no graveyard shift!), so I might actually curl up in the bed with ladymarcovan, her dog, and three or four of the cats, and get some nighttime shuteye like a normal person.

(To be continued ...)

 

Thanks.

Guilty as charged. Clickbait to the max, though with fewer pictures.

But coin-related clickbait, at least!

 

Admirable, if any of your kids are interested in the hobby.

Neither of mine are, so I'll just have to cross my fingers and hope for an enthusiastic grandkid!

Or "numismatically adopt" a protegé or two.