I

T WAS ALWAYS A TREAT

when my mother rented

movies. I never expected

one of them to change

my life. In the 1981

film Raiders of the Lost

Ark, archaeologist and

adventurer Indiana Jones,

played by Harrison Ford,

is recruited to recover the

long-lost Ark, along the way

digging up relics and piecing

together the mysteries

surrounding them. It was all

the inspiration I needed. At

that moment I knew what I

was going to do for a living,

and I didn’t need a magic

sword or a way to travel the

galaxy to do it. All I had to do

was learn a craft.

And so, I did. I’ve been a

registered professional archae-

ologist, with an undergraduate

degree in anthropolog y from

California University of Penn-

sylvania and a graduate degree

in North American history

from Norwich University in

Vermont, for over 17 years, and

I’m as addicted now as I was

EVERYTHING

YOU NEED

TO GET

STARTED IN

MAGNET

FISHING

In addition

to treasure

hunting, magnet

fishing has an

environmental

aspect—it helps

to clean up our

waterways.

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By Ben Demchak

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