Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jim Evans, 76, the metal detectorist.
Fall is a prime season, because people will be raking leaves, throwing leaves. Winter, when there’s snow, that becomes busy. Guys wiping snow off their car, their fingers shrink, they lose their rings. And then in the summertime, people go to the beach and lose their rings. They go in the water, their fingers shrink. Or they put the ring in their shoe, and it starts to rain, and they grab their stuff and start running, and they drop the ring.
