This picture is of Norwich, Conn. at Christmas time in 1948. It's the town where I was born and grew up. It just looks so peaceful.
I'm with you, and if I could walk into that picture I probably wouldn't want to come back.
Thanks......
I think a lot of us would love to go back to that point in time.I'm with A2!
Looking straight at it, it's Main Street. if you were to turn right where the car in the right hand side of the picture is, you'd be turning on to Franklin Street. For about the last 20 years or so the city of Norwich has had a blanket ban on all metal detecting in the city limits due to the fact that at one time a Norwich coin dealer was detecting on the historic Norwich town green which annoyed the "powers that be".
I seriously doubt that anyone even knows there's a ban on detecting to begin with. When I started detecting back in the 1980's there was no ban and I detected a few places. I've detected all the schoolyards with decent finds including silver coins and a large cent, and I detected the Norwich town green. The green didn't produce anything significant. I detected a green up on Laurel Hill Road that gave up a pair of mercs. I also dug a few silver coins from areas in a housing project I lived in before my parents bought their house. The housing project was called Sunset Park and was located off of Dunham street. The best spot I ever hunted in Norwich was a triangular strip of grass in front of Norwich Free Academy. Back in the "old days" kids hung around it if they wanted to smoke between classes and it was also where they got on and off the busses each day. The site gave me 33 silver coins including an 1893 Barber Quarter and over 700 clad coins. I dug a spot in the downtown area called Columbus Park located at the crux of Franklin Street and Boswell Avenue. Its been quite a while since I hunted in Norwich but I have a spot I'm eager to try but it's not in the best neighborhood, if you know what I mean but maybe someday I'll give it a try. I'm sure that Mohegan park, though off limits would give up a lot of good finds because of its age.
I'm sure the triangle is still a good hunt site but when they converted it to a memorial years ago, I stopped hunting it. I also hunted the big field across from the triangle known as Chelsea parade. The only thing I got out of it was modern clad. I'd bet that there's a lot of good stuff scattered all over the NFA campus grounds. I've recently hunted the grounds around Kelley Junior high and dug some clad and a Mercury dime. The soccer field in back of the school was barren. Those ball fields near Kelley JH have been in use for a long time and I'd like to hunt them. I played Little League there in 1956 and both fields attracted crowds.
Thanks RGINN
Unlike today's rush, rush, rush at Christmas time.
