Telling stories about Indiana Jones is kind of like asking old geezers where
they were when President Kennedy got shot. The summer Indiana Jones came
out, I directed a major excavation of a "lost" Spanish cannon battery on a U.S.
Navy Base and coordinated about 300 civilian and Navy volunteers in a very
exciting project to learn how the 1796 fort had been constructed. A group of
these very excited avocational and professional archaeologists met at the local
movie theater to go inside as a group and have the fun of seeing Indiana
Jones together. I think there were about 20 people in the theater and we all had
ice cream sundaes at a Denny's afterwards and had a blast. Not a one of them
in the room thought for one minute that the movie would create treasure
hunters. We had a wonderful time and returned to the dig with great vigor for the
rest of the summer.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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