By Charla Adams-Wurm
cwurm@wbcowqel.com
As it does every year, the Crawford Park District’s Arrowhead Day on Saturday was a reminder of the rich history of the area and stories of its past. There were several collections of not just arrowheads, but many artifacts from the original inhabitants of what is now known as Crawford County.
Naturalist Josh Dyer explains the purpose of the annual event.
“We have wonderful displays of Crawford County finds,” Dyer said. “People are encouraged to bring their own finds in, you know you have an old cigar box, a shoe box tucked away in a drawer and people bring them in and they learn a little bit about them, compare them to some of the displays that are here and its just a really wonderful event for adults and kids alike, everybody likes to find something that nobody has touched in thousands of years.”
One collector, John Myles had a table of items he has collected over a period of 20 years from the area near Wynford.
“Well, I got stuff 10,000 B.C. clear up to 500 A.D. Pieces that come off of all one site, my site, home site and stuff. I’ve been doing it about 20 years, 20 years of collecting and stuff,” Myles said. “You find tools, you find arrowhead points, stone tools, lots of stones that they make and stuff, more tools than do anything else.”
Some of the different items displayed were chisels, pendants, points, scrapers, tools, jewelry, flint pieces, stalagmites or stalagmites pieces, 2,000-year-old prehistoric pieces and pieces made of bone which was the material initially used in making arrowheads.
Guests were able to buy jewelry and enter into a raffle going on to help support the Crawford Park District for all their hard work. There were also two flint knapper’s in the back of the Nature Center working to show the technique used to make arrowheads.