![]() “It gets really cold, and the ground freezes. “I did it for only a few months,” he said of metal detecting in Saratoga Springs. “It was tough,” Wooten said, “and I didn’t pursue it.”Īlso tough is the weather where he attends school. ![]() Wooten went online to view Le Moyne College yearbooks, even though time had badly corroded the initials scratched into the band. Le Moyne College is in Syracuse, N.Y., and Skidmore College is in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He found this ring near Skidmore, in an area owned by the college called the North Woods. ![]() She suggested he sell the ring and use the money to pursue his interests.Ĭurrently a sophomore at Skidmore College, Wooten did not have as much luck with a Class of 1969 ring from Le Moyne College. Wooten contacted the deceased owner’s sister, who was living in the Midwest. Wooten has continued to search for lost treasures.Īfter the exhibition, he found an old “BHS” high school ring in Glen Ridge and, failing to identify anyone from Bloomfield High School as the owner, traced its ownership to a Bernardsville High School graduate. The exhibition did not put an end to Wooten’s metal-detecting adventures. A collection of these discoveries was exhibited at the Glen Ridge Historical Society before the pandemic. “I have all the cars in a bin and and all the shells in glass jars.”Īlong the way, he received a metal detector from his grandparents and began to investigate local parks and backyards, looking for objects covered over by time. “I was big into Matchbox cars and seashells I found at the beach,” he recently told The Glen Ridge Paper. GLEN RIDGE, NJ - Still collecting after all these years, Glen Ridge High School Class of 2021 graduate Jack Wooten started amassing his array of collectibles as a small boy.
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