I was driving by the WWI cannon in a local park yesterday. The barrel is pointing up at the sky at about a 30 degree angle.
I was watching some kids play on it and they were looking down the barrel. So I said to my Sister, "Do you think I'd find anything cool if I stuffed my magnet down that barrel. She says "I don't know, but we used to roll coins down the barrel for good luck." I freaked out when she said this. (She grew up in the town I didn't.) She says "people always have."
I don't know exactly how long the cannon has been there, but I know we drove by it in the early 70's, when I was a kid.
Now I'm just wondering what kind of device I'm gonna use to try and see what's down there. I'm probably gonna go there this evening and peek down the barrel with a flash light. Probably full of trash.
Maybe I'll tell the city I want to clean out the barrel and put a cap on it to keep it from rusting.
I was watching some kids play on it and they were looking down the barrel. So I said to my Sister, "Do you think I'd find anything cool if I stuffed my magnet down that barrel. She says "I don't know, but we used to roll coins down the barrel for good luck." I freaked out when she said this. (She grew up in the town I didn't.) She says "people always have."
I don't know exactly how long the cannon has been there, but I know we drove by it in the early 70's, when I was a kid.
Now I'm just wondering what kind of device I'm gonna use to try and see what's down there. I'm probably gonna go there this evening and peek down the barrel with a flash light. Probably full of trash.
Maybe I'll tell the city I want to clean out the barrel and put a cap on it to keep it from rusting.