Art Gose is standing in a 13-foot hole dug straight down into a turn-of-the-century town dump somewhere in South Carolina; he’s asked Free Times not to say exactly where it is. Layers of dirt — ...

And then there were five. When William James Beal crept out under cover of night and buried 20 uniform bottles filled with a mixture of soil and seed in 1879, he lit the fuse on agriculture’s longest ...

W earing chest waders and armed with a flashlight, gloves and pitchfork, Nick Fredsall of Stockbridge is ready to start hunting. His prey — century-old bottles. ¶ The ideal day for a dig is the sunny ...

In 1879, botanist William J. Beal filled 20 bottles with soil and seeds and buried them on what is now Michigan State University’s campus grounds. In April 2021, the 16th bottle was unearthed, and its ...