A Good Days Hunt - Chapter 2	by Neal Schwartz,
Central States Archaeological Societies 2019 January Journal	Steeleville, Illinois

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The two points found on the May 26, 2013 hunt.

May 5th, 2018 was the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby, otherwise known as the most exciting two minutes in sports. This just also happened to be the most exciting day of artifact hunting in my lifetime. Creek walking for artifacts has not been very productive for me. In fact, the only artifact I had found to date walking creeks was an Archaic period Kirk point found on Friday, April 18, 2008, that I had “stumbled upon” while mushroom hunting. This had been a very productive day, having found over 100 morel mushrooms and the Kirk point. Actually, I had submitted that article which was printed in the July 2008 issue of the Central States Archaeological Journal under the title “ A Good Days Hunt.”

Fast forward to May 5, 2018, ten years later. I had free a nice and sunny Saturday morning in southern Illinois. I did want to be back in the afternoon to watch the “Cardinals-versus-Cubs” game on TV followed by the Kentucky Derby. So I left the house mid-morning to walk a new creek that I had not looked in before. Four miles from the house, I realized that I only had the tennis shoes that I was wearing, having forgotten my hip boots. Driving back home, I had thought this might be an omen for another fruitless walk in the creek.

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The large Archaic period blade in situ.

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