Money Search

When we were kids, our summers were spent at Colonel Denning State Park which is 9 miles north of Newville PA. Newville is the center of the universe, in case you were out of school on the day that was announced.
This area of the mountain is commonly referred to as Doubling Gap, as the mountain makes an s and doubles back on itself. Most of the locals call it Dublin.
There were four of us, three boys and a girl. The girl was the youngest and I was the oldest. Those were wonderful, carefree days. Sleeping under the stars many nights, sitting around campfires, hiking through the woods, learning about all kinds of wildlife. Dublin was not a high volume destination during the 1950's except on Sundays. We pretty much had the run of the whole area to ourselves.
One day, the park crew was cleaning up the area around the spring where we got water. One man said "Look what I found" and held up a roll of paper money big enough to choke an elephant. Our eyes must have been falling out of our heads the way the men were laughing. We started an immediate search of the area but were told that the men had already been over it. We were sent to search the rest of the park and boy did we ever! All day, we went from one end of the park to the other, looking everywhere. We were very disappointed when we pooled our money and didn't have a dollar among us.
The next morning, we were at it again, bright and early but didn't find any money at all. That ended the great treasure hunt for us.
The man who had "found" the roll of money never forgot that incident. He died about 35 years later and reminded me of the discovery up until the last time I saw him. We both laughed many times over how he had pulled one over on a bunch of kids.