<story><title>Treasure in a Cornfield</title><url>http://imgur.com/gallery/tj4Ef</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>digibri</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve lived in Kansas City for years.  The Steamboat Arabia museum is a great experience.  In the early days, one of the original guys would often be there and tell the whole story to groups.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, they had a lot to learn about saving the artifacts.  Since everything was submerged for so long in fresh water mud the wood artifacts would shrivel up when they dried up.  For many months, they stored all the wood artifacts in one of the guy&amp;#x27;s backyard pool until they could learn how to properly transition the wood artifacts to a restored state.</text></comment>
<story><title>Treasure in a Cornfield</title><url>http://imgur.com/gallery/tj4Ef</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jcromartie</author><text>This is a fantastic illustration of geological processes. Sometimes I look at hillsides and geological layers and wonder how they could ever be built up so much. How could hundreds of feet of rock be deposited little by little, to make such thick layers? Well, here it is. A boat that sank in a river is 49 feet below a cornfield only a few human generations later. Amazing.</text></comment>