We love to dig stuff up. It stems from our days in the ol’ sandbox when making a mess with dirt during the day was acceptable.
Unfortunately that’s not the case anymore, because for some reason, doing it in an office setting is frowned upon (this is a policy we’ve worked hard to change). That’s why our push for work place recess is so important, but that’s a story for another day.
So when we got invited to the N.H. Division of Historical Resources Dig Days event last week, it could not have come at a better time. The early days of spring are when we miss our play time the most. We even had our own shovels and buckets in the trunk.
And while the stuff recovered from the area at 19 Pillsbury St. was cool and historical (see complete coverage on pages 24 and 25), here’s a list of Concord stuff we had hoped to see unearthed.
∎ Beer caps from what we would call Concord’s original brewery – Capitol Suds.
∎ Very old dirt.
∎ Douglas Everett’s Olympic hockey stick.
∎ Douglas Everett’s Olympic walking stick (he was fast for an old dude).
∎ A time capsule to be opened in 2015.
∎ Pirate treasure.
∎ Matt Bonner’s first basketball shoes.
∎ A box of Twinkies (what, you work up an appetite working this hard. Plus, we hear preshistoric Twinkies and modern Twinkies share the same chemical makeup).
∎ Franklin Pierce’s wallet.
∎ A velociraptor skeleton.
∎ Original plans for the State House.
∎ Our proposed plans for the State House (complete with a Concord Insider annex and petting zoo).
∎ Noparkasaurus bones, as evidence of the dinosaur that used to roam Main Street.
