Great story and great pictures. Well done! I may have posted this a few years back, but almost to a T the same story. I stopped at a deserted country school house and used my detector. Among the debris was a HS school ring. The year of the ring was 1942, and the HS was Lecompton, Kansas. I lived near there and visited the Historical Society there and asked the lady at the desk if she could identify the owner of the ring based on the MAR initials. She went to the files and told me the initials were for Marvin A. R_____. She said he was the CEO or ex CEO of a very large hospital in Topeka.
I went to the hospital, faced a very obnoxious secretary who wanted me to give exact details why I wanted to speak to him. It was none of her business. So I handed her the ring and said, "Tell him I found his old class ring." , walked out, took the elevator down, out the front door, and toward the parking lot. I heard a man screaming, "SIR!! SIR!! and a man was runnning toward me. He told me he had lost the ring the day after graduation in 1942 putting up hay in that old school house. He thanked me for finding and apologized for the obnoxious secretary.
You never know what you're going to find. This was one of the two times this has happened to me. I really enjoyed both.
