END OF 2016, BEGINNING OF 2017-HAPPY NEW YEAR AND THANKS FROM THE TIME SEARCHERS

HERE'S THE COVERS FROM THE TWO DVD'S WE PRODUCED IN 2013 AND 2014.

THE CIVIL WAR TREASURE TROVE VIDEO WAS ONE IN WHICH WE WERE PRESENT FOR A MAJOR RELIC FIND: A COIN PURSE BULGING WITH CIVIL WAR ERA COINS AND A RARE CAPE PIN.   THE OTHER DVD CHRONICLES OUR PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES ON A CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELD.  REMARKABLY, WITHOUT ANY REAL PROMOTION,  THESE TWO DVD'S HAVE DONE WELL IN SALES.  ALTHOUGH SOME RELIC HUNTERS DO NOT APPRECIATE THE PARANORMAL ASPECT OF THE LOCATIONS AND RELICS THAT WE ENCOUNTER.  WE HOPE TO PRODUCE MORE DVD'S AND VIDEOS IN THE COMING YEAR AND HOPE GOOD HEALTH AND GOOD FORTUNE TO EVERYONE.-THE TIME SEARCHER

A TRIBUTE AND GOODBYE TO DEBBIE REYNOLDS-A GREAT ACTRESS AND GREAT COLLECTOR OF HOLLYWOOD HISTORY

IT WAS WITH GREAT SURPRISE THAT I HEARD ABOUT CARRIE FISHER'S PASSING. SADLY, HER MOTHER, THE ACTRESS, DEBBIE REYNOLDS WAS SO UPSET THAT SHE HAD A STROKE AND PASSED AWAY.  A TRULY CLOSE FAMILY BOND THAT SHOWS IN A TRAGIC WAY THAT FAMILY IS TRULY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE BEYOND MONEY AND POSSESSIONS.
WHAT SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW IS THAT DEBBIE REYNOLDS WAS A TRUE RELIC COLLECTOR.  WHILE MYSELF AND THE COLONIAL RELIC HUNTER HUNT AND COLLECT COLONIAL AND OTHER RELICS.  DEBBIE REYNOLDS HUNTED AND COLLECTED  MOVIE WARDROBE AND PROP ITEMS: RELICS OF HOLLYWOOD.  IN FACT, SHE BOUGHT ALOT OF ITEMS WHEN MGM STUDIOS WAS BOUGHT OUT BY KIRK KEKORIAN WHO BASICALLY SOLD EVERYTHING OFF INCLUDING THE HUGE MGM WARDROBE AND PROP COLLECTIONS.  IN 1970 MGM HAD A HUGE AUCTION OF THESE ITEMS.  DEBBIE REYNOLDS BOUGHT ALOT OF ITEMS AND TRIED SEVERAL TIMES TO DISPLAY THEM IN A MUSEUM.  THESE EFFORTS WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL AND IN 2011 SHE AUCTIONED OFF MOST OF HER COLLECTION.
SHE DID NOT COLLECT TO MAKE MONEY.  SHE COLLECTED BECAUSE SHE LOVED THE HISTORY REPRESENTED BY THESE ITEMS.  A TRUE COLLECTOR.  A VERY NICE LADY WHO IF YOU MET HER WOULD TALK TO YOU AND NOT BE A HOLLYWOOD PHONEY.  A GREAT TALENT AND COLLECTOR THAT WE WILL ALL MISS.-THE TIME SEARCHER.

THE TIME SEARCHERS RETURN TO THE LOST COLONIAL VILLAGE: OCTOBER, 2016 PART THREE- COLONIAL RELIC ROUND UP

HERE'S THE THIRD PART OF THE TIME SEARCHERS TRIP TO THE LOST COLONIAL VILLAGE IN OCTOBER, 2016.  IN THIS INSTALLMENT, THE COLONIAL RELIC HUNTER GIVES US A ROUND UP OF THE COLONIAL RELICS FOUND ON THIS TRIP. -THE TIME SEARCHER

THE KINKS THE ANTHOLOGY 1964-1971 THE MODS MUSIC FROM THEN AND THE 1980'S

O.K. CHRISTMAS IS OVER AND WE'RE GOING OVER THE GIFTS WE GOT AND SOME WE SIMPLY BOUGHT FOR OURSELVES WHILE WE WERE SHOPPING.  HERE' S ONE OF THE LATTER.  BELIEVE IT OR NOT.  THERE WERE STILL MODS IN GREAT BRITAIN IN THE 1980'S.  I KNOW THE COLONIAL RELIC HUNTER HATES THIS FACT AND HE IS THE VETERAN OF MANY RUN INS BETWEEN THE MODS AND THE ROCKERS FROM THOSE DAYS.  SOME OF THE MUSIC FROM THE MOD ERA IS THE KINKS.  THIS SET WAS PRODUCED TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE KINKS.  THE BAND ITSELF DISBANDED IN THE MID 1990'S. RAY DAVIES STILL DOES SOLO STUFF.  BUT NO MORE ARENA CONCERTS.  I LIKED RAY DAVIES STUFF AND STILL DO.  THIS SET COVERS THE MAJOR SONGS OF THE KINKS FROM THIS AREA AND INCLUDES TRACKS NEVER RELEASED BEFORE.  HOWEVER, THERE IS SOME GREAT SONGS NOT INCLUDED FROM THIS TIME LIKE THE ONE FROM THE ARTHUR ALBUM AND MUSKWELL HILLBILLIES.
     IT IS STILL A GREAT SET TO PICK UP. AND YES COLONIAL RELIC HUNTER,  I BROUGHT MY 1962 TRIUMPH TINA MOTOR SCOOTER BACK HOME.  IT IS NOW FULLY RESTORED AND I WILL HAVE TO  DO A BLOG FEATURE ON IT.-THE TIME SEARCHER

TIME SEARCHERS RETURN TO THE LOST COLONIAL VILLAGE-OCTOBER, 2016 PART TWO COLONIAL BUTTONS COLONIAL HORSESHOE FOUND RELIC METAL DETECTING

HERE'S A LINK TO OUR LATEST VIDEO ON OUR OCTOBER, 2016 TRIP TO THE LOST COLONIAL VILLAGE.  I WILL KEEP POSTING VIDEOS AS OFTEN AS I CAN.  WE ARE LOADED WITH VIDEO.  I LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT YEARS RELIC HUNTING ADVENTURES.  WE HAVE SOME GREAT NEW SPOTS LINED UP AND WE APPRECIATE THE INVITATIONS WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM OTHER RELIC HUNTERS WE KNOW TO HUNT WITH THEM AT SOME OF THEIR SPOTS.-THE TIME SEARCHER

PEARL HARBOR-75TH ANNIVERSARY-RENDEZVOUS WITH YESTERDAY

I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE THAT IT HAS BEEN 75 YEARS SINCE THE JAPANESE ATTACK AGAINST PEARL HARBOR.  MY DAD USED TO TELL ME STORIES ABOUT THE PUBLIC'S REACTION HERE IN THE UNITED STATES TO THIS UNPROVOKED ATTACK.  PEOPLE WERE SCARED AND ANGRY AT THE SAME TIME.  THE RECRUITING STATIONS WERE SWAMPED WITH MEN WANTING TO GET EVEN AND FIGHT FOR THE UNITED STATES. I DON'T THINK THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES WERE EVER MORE UNITED THAN THEY WERE IN WORLD WAR TWO.  ITS TOO BAD WE DON'T SEE THIS TYPE OF UNITY TODAY.
I PUT A PICTURE OF THE B-17 BOMBER "PATTY ANN" UP SINCE ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING WHAT IF STORIES IS THAT THE RADAR OPERATORS AT PEARL HARBOR HAD ACTUALLY DETECTING THE INCOMING JAPANESE PLANES AND REPORTED IT TO A FIRST LT.  WHO TOLD THE OPERATORS TO IGNORE IT SINCE THE DETECTED AIRPLANES WERE MOST LIKELY A FLIGHT OF B-17 BOMBERS THAT WERE DUE IN TO PEARL HARBOR FROM THE MAINLAND THAT VERY DAY.
SADLY, THIS OFFICER IN AN INTERVIEW YEARS LATER STILL STUCK TO HIS EXCUSE NOT TO ALERT THE ISLAND OR AT LEAST TRY TO CONTACT THE AIRPLANES BY RADIO OR OTHERWISE CONFIRM THAT THESE AIRCRAFT WERE ACTUALLY THE B-17'S.
IF THIS WARNING HAD BEEN HEEDED AND THE ISLAND FORCES PUT ON ALERT, IT COULD HAVE SAVED A LOT OF LIVES AND CHANGED HISTORY.  BUT, LIKE ANYTHING IN LIFE, IT IS EASY TO SPECULATE WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THINGS HAD BEEN DONE DIFFERENTLY. REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME,  THE UNITED STATES INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR TWO AS A COMBATANT HAD BEGUN.  A THREAD OF HISTORY THAT CHANGED THE FLOW OF TIME UP TO THE PRESENT.-THE TIME SEARCHER.