In this chapter he talks about artifacts that have been dug up in New Auburn. It starts out with Jack Most's finding a rock with a paw print in it. Jack takes the rock to many experts and none of them agree on what it is. Then he turns to a story in his own backyard, one day he looks out his window and notices indentations in his backyard. The indentation make it look like something was buried there. He digs up these indentations and finds a lot of roots and other junk. Later he finds out that their use to be big sugar maples in his backyard years ago.
This chapter was written in a tone that made it sound like the last chapter. It seems like he is summing the whole story up at the end when he uses the artifacts dug up as a metaphor for finding home or contentment. To truly find home you have to abandon yourself to that place is what he is saying. It is the only chapter he ends pretty much telling what he wants you to take from what you just read. This also why it sounds like an ending because through the whole book he has talked about how he has given himself to the town by being a volunteer firefighter and now he has found home in New Auburn.
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