Rustic
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- Jul 10, 2015
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My house was built in 1825 by a man named Willard Church, and today it finally occurred to me that maybe I should go down into the dirt floored basement and see if he left anything behind. Sure enough, I found this nice button right up against the stones of the foundation, about 5 inches down in the dirt.
I can't help but think that, when Willard lifted a particularly heavy stone up into place for the foundation, he scraped off a button from his jacket, where it has lain ever since. I soaked it in olive oil for a few hours, which is why the back looks wet. What a great little keepsake.
When I move one day, I'll make up a little time capsule with this button, and a few other things I recovered in the yard (a small toy truck, a token, a silver thimble and a silver cross) along with a few little things of my own (maybe a couple photos of my family, some recent coinage, and a poem or two) and re bury them in a corner down there for someone else to find someday... hopefully there will be a metal detectorist around in a hundred years to find it, and maybe even add to the cache.
I can't help but think that, when Willard lifted a particularly heavy stone up into place for the foundation, he scraped off a button from his jacket, where it has lain ever since. I soaked it in olive oil for a few hours, which is why the back looks wet. What a great little keepsake.
When I move one day, I'll make up a little time capsule with this button, and a few other things I recovered in the yard (a small toy truck, a token, a silver thimble and a silver cross) along with a few little things of my own (maybe a couple photos of my family, some recent coinage, and a poem or two) and re bury them in a corner down there for someone else to find someday... hopefully there will be a metal detectorist around in a hundred years to find it, and maybe even add to the cache.
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