Subj : The Collectors Newsletter No. 1089 May 26,2017
To   : All
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Fri May 26 2017 10:03:30

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7. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help/Blast from the past

Please share your story about collecting with us, and we will publish it here.  
Send your story to newsletter@tias.com

Here's a reprint from the Collectors Newsletter published August 2002:

Cannonballs. Things are not always as they appear to be. As this reader 
discovered.  Sometime during the 1950s my grandparents and their children 
bought 2 lots of property from an old local farmer in Northwestern 
Pennsylvania, around Pymatuning Lake.  My father was probably about 10 years 
old at the time.  They worked to clear the lots and they built by hand a small 
summer cottage to escape to from the city.  Over the years my grandmother dug 
holes around the yard to put gardens in and landscape.  While digging these 
holes she found two completely round, heavy stones that were very unnatural and 
not like any other stones she came across in the ground.  They were the same 
size (about 5 inches across) and they fit in her hand.  She washed them off and 
kept them as door stops of sorts.  She called them her "cannonballs" and she 
thought they were from the civil war era.  However, when my grandparents passed 
away the balls ended up in the shed until my father rediscovered them and gave 
them to me.  They were too odd to toss back in the yard.  I took digital 
pictures of them and decided to try and settle the mystery once and for all.  I 
emailed the photos to a local archeologist/Native American historian to see if 
he recognized them.  Turns out they are from a pre-historical era (AD 1000 to 
1600) and were used by the Native American tribe living in the area in a game 
called "Chunkey." My grandmother's "cannon balls" turned out to be something 
very interesting besides doorstops!  ....Jennifer B., Western PA

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