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Headline: Leave no Rolling Stone unturned
It’s remarkable that Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner is moving his award-winning river-rock stilted manor house; out of the Broadford Rd. floodplain area, and up to his new spread, in the Hyndman Creek drainage (out East Fork). The Broadford house lies at the end of the same driveway, where a decade ago two local men, while excavating it with a skip-loader, found 96 ancient coins worth somewhere between $20,000 and a million bucks –depending on who you talk to.
This tale full of intrigue grew into a parable of biblical proportions, with money souring friendships, attorneys profiting highly, and one of the most powerful businessmen in the country ultimately receiving the buried treasure discovered in his topsoil. Even the New Yorker magazine, featured a piece of writing about it.
It’s easy to imagine workers on the current project, taking extra care to examine each rock, unearthed by the equipment –perhaps shoveling more robustly then usual, while wondering if a Minnie-Moore miner from the pre-Geocache era, stashed away second or third jars, safe from the banker’s grubby hands –in that decade before the Great Depression hit hard.
It would also be interesting to hear if this past decade has been enough time to mend the impasse in Mr. Anderson’s & Mr. Corliss’s once strong friendship, and if in fact they now can now share laughs together over this Huck Finn-like fable from bygone days, from which they were the lead rascals. Or does reopening this earthly wound in the hundred year floodplain, spout forth from their eyes another 96 tears, which irrigates barren ground under Poverty Flats gravel stones, when contemplation of their gone astray coins is reassessed?
These tarnished coins are now an additional ten years older, which gives them even more value. Perhaps they will soon vibrate in a jar, in a kitchen window with the most picturesque view of the Pioneer Mountains
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