Treasures found at the river

When I was a kid, about nine years old, I was allowed to go visit friends. I was a student at Central School, which was where the grocery store is now on Fourth Street, and my friend lived right near there. On one nice summer day, we decided to go down and see the houses that were on stilts in an area that was called Schmoldtville. It was called Schmoldtville because Mr. Schmoldt had his lumber business where the softball diamond is. The houses on stilts along the end of Wall Street were over a deep, swampy area and had pieces of tin around the poles to keep the rats from climbing the poles and coming into the homes. This was the first time that I had ever seen this, and it was all very exciting to see. We continued our walk over to the edge of the river where there were no levees. Right there near the river, I really found a treasure. It was like a half shell with perfect holes in it. I sure wanted to take this home to show my parents.