I'm wondering if this story will ring a bell with anyone reading this blog. I received a call this week from Ann Middleton of the Bossier History Center. She was trying to track down a story about a little girl somewhere in North Louisiana finding a rather large diamond while playing in her gravel driveway. Someone had inquired about the story at the History Center and there were conflicting accounts. One placed the event in Princeton and the other placed it in Minden. The History Center staff eventually found an account in their files that placed the event in 1973 but there was no indication of where the account originated. They went through the files of the Bossier Banner for 1973, but found no clues. Their next step will be to examine the back issues of the Shreveport Times for that year and then on to the Shreveport Journal.
The story didn't spark any memories for me. It seemed I vaguely remembered an anecdotal tale of a diamond being found while gravel was being excavated from the bar pits along Dorcheat, but not the "little girl" account. I'm going to check the 1973 editions of the Press-Herald, but thought it wouldn't hurt to post this on the blog and see if someone remembers the story.
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I vaguely remember the story because my mom started spending a lot of time in the driveway looking through rocks that might have a diamond in them. I will ask her if she remembers the next time I see her.
ReplyDeleteMomma said the diamond was found down around Sibley.
ReplyDeleteMomma remembered because we had gotten a load of rocks from Sibley at the same time the diamond was found and a neighbor had gotten a load of rocks at the same time from the same place and momma was looking around at the rocks and the neighbor asked what she was doing and she told her about the diamond and so the neighbor was out looking at their rocks in their driveway. It was kinda funny.
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