Idaho Treasure Hunt - Uncle Bill

Earlier this year I drove with my Dad up to his childhood home in Idaho, and to visit his brother.  Of course I brought the metal detectors.  While my Dad would visit with uncle Bill, I would go down to the city park with the hope of finding something old. My grandpa moved to Emmett when Bill was 4 years old, that would make it 1917.  Bill is probably the longest resident of the town and he said that city park has been there as long as he could remember.  I know the park has been hunted before, but I still had hope of finding a treasure.

I remember with fondness the trips to Grandpa's house and visiting the park, walking down to the store to buy penny candy, crossing the street to climb on the old tank in front of the county building.  This part of town is pretty much as I remember it, other than the candy store is gone.  Although, I imagine that it has changed a lot since my Grandpa moved there. 

I searched the park for hours and only managed to find a pile of modern clad and some tokens from the city carnival.

Before we left, Uncle Bill showed me a box of coins he had been saving for his grandkids.  Here was all the treasure I had been looking for: a high school class ring, an elk tooth, a roll of morgan and peace silver dollars, and a couple hand fulls of miscellaneous other old coins.  I wish I could have spent more time searching, but it was great to hear the stories about how things used to be,