"In 1967, Bill Dickerson and a friend were eating lunch in the cafeteria at Ford Motor Company. They had read about 'diamonds as big as golf balls' in Arkansas and decided to hop on their motorcycles and ride to Murfreesboro, Ark.
Dickerson, 26 at the time, said he and his friend bought cheap metal detectors and traveled to Arkansas in search of diamonds. Soon thereafter, they traveled to Padre Island, Texas, in hopes of striking gold.
'They were finding gold coins from Spanish shipwrecks,' Dickerson said. 'We watched them dig up a Spanish ship but we didn’t find much. That’s what got us started, and I always sort of kept it up.'
These were just the first of many excursions for the Cridersville man. He and his wife, Lila, remain modern day treasure hunters today."
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