The Middens

[mendaciloquent]

Before the house I live in was built, another house stood here. And in the days of that house, trash was not brought to a dump and then shipped out of the county. Appalachia was more remote in that time, and every family burned what trash they could, and buried what they could not.

And in the days of the quarantine, the middens of this earlier

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[benicek]

Lockdown has simply sent my teen into suspended animation.

I do love bottle digs though. I used to excavate a lot from the slopes near my parents’ house. Mostly 1910s to 30s stuff.

[nightspore]

Wonderful post.

My kids are older but I feel you.