[Grant]

I'm an old bottle junkie. The sites off of any of the islands with the big old homes on them (western side of the Lake) are usually good locations for that sort of old junk. "Back in the day," when people used the Lake as their dump, the folks in those houses would burn much of their garbage, including bottles, and then dump the remnants in the lake. That's why some of the bottles found are blackened. The glass, metal, and ceramic stuff remains. And it's amazing how many old machines and odd whatnot are down there.

There are two old engine blocks off our shore in Tuftonboro, each in about five feet of water. They were anchors for floating docks way back when. My family has had that place since 1945, so they pre-date that year. The old stone steps leading down to that dock are still there, along with the shore anchors for the old dock -- all grown over for years, but I know where they are.

Two weekends ago, Senter Cove Guy and I dove a little cove near our place, and found another (bigger) engine and some other big upright piece of old metal that was obviously used as some kind of anchor or mooring. Also found a couple large, unused mooring "disks" -- concrete disks, probably 8 feet in diameter and a good 6-8 inches thick. Those things ain't goin' ANYWHERE.