ABSTRACT
In owning a home, historical knowledge of the place has real practical value, especially for home improvement concerns. The old pair of glasses, still with a sticker reading "13" on the lens, was far and away the author's favorite find in all those hours of shoveling and pitch-forking out the old manure and hay from the barn. The glasses were perfectly preserved in a closed metal case, with purple velvet on the inside. The oral memory of the author's property went back to around 1900, to the Sunderlins, and to the Whites, but the name Powell, while prominent in the area, was no longer connected in memory to the site. Most metal detecting finds result in little of monetary value. Lacking any written sources or standing structures, boundary stones and survey markers would be important sources for an archeologist interpreting a site.
