I  have been walking fields and the sides of Beech Creek for four years now, and when I started out I would look for "arrowheads" because that is all I knew. During those early years I would pick up wierd shaped rocks and wonder why that it was so wierd, and 9 times out of 10 cast it aside. After my first heavy hunting season I went to Waldenbooks and asked the woman working there if there were any books on the subject of Indian artifacts and she directed me to "Indian Artifacts of the Midwest" by Lar Hothem.
 Thanks to Lar's great book and several others he authored I have purchased from time to time I learned that I was throwing great artifacts back into the very field I was hunting for them. Although my wife was not appreciative of the initial knowledge once she stubbed a toe or two on my increasingly full coffee cans of pieces and parts and non-arrowhead flint pieces. My sadness is that I never got to meet this man who helped my knowledge of this hobby so much by simply writing a book.
   I am certain many on this sight have not only met him but enjoyed him for a friend, I think Mr. Bennett even co-wrote a book or two with him if I am not mistaken. I was just wondering if those who knew him could tell me what kind of man he was or maybe just share a story or two. It is indeed a deep regret that I never pursued meeting the man, but maybe a few of his old friends could give me an idea of how he was. Looking forward to what you have to share & thanks for your time. Bill
   

 Hey guys hope this letter finds you all well. Well the crops are  at full mass here on the farm and I am going through withdrawels since I can't groom the fields anymore. They are harvesting some trees in the back from a woods that is near a field where I have found many artifacts, have any of you ever found artifacts in this scenario? I am waiting on a good rain, my first inspection with all the wood bark laying tells me that it will be a challenge. Thanks for your time, and Look forward to hearing from you. William Wallace

  Hello I am William Wallace and new at this game, but I am blessed to have grown up in NE Ohio. In the Columbiana and Mahoning County areas. My friends were all arrowhead and indian artifact fanatics and I would go out walking fields with them and give them what I found. I guess I just never got it.
   At the ripe old age of 40 in the year 2006 I where I now reside on a farm in Stark County I decided to take a walk and look for arrowheads. Beech creek runs through the property and I was told the first few years that I lived here that the property contained many Indian campsites. I walked for a good half hour. We use the infamous black plastic to line our feed bunk for the herd of 100 holstiens, and I am sure that many of you far more experienced than I have suffered through the brief excitement of seeing the gloss black only to bend over and find a piece of plastic!!! On this day I walked and bent over for the said plastic countless times, saying to myself, "I am not bending over for black again!"
    I walked along and low and behold there was black and defiantly walked by refusing to bend over or even kick it. 15 paces later it was killing me not to know for what ever reason, so I retraced my steps and bent over to touch it convinced that it would fold and give once I pushed on it. It held firm and low and behold I pulled a beautiful jet black adena point about 2-1/2 inches long with just the tip broke.
   For what ever reason this is the artifact that overwhelmed me. I began to wonder who  the ancient man was that crafted this fine piece, and what did he shoot it at or take down with it?
I was near shaken by the discovery, I must have flipped this piece in my hand 100 times over for as long as I walked the field prior to it's discovery. The fever was struck and I have combed these grounds for the past 4 years since finding various artifacts throughout, and it is even more mystical every discovery that I make. Between scrapers, points and the like I have probably hoarded near 100 or more artifacts from this ground and it depresses me now that the crops are planted and I can look no more.
   I am thankful for this website and look forward to hearing from many of you, I am sure I will learn a great deal from all of you.