This old photo which my brother recently digitized is of an exhibit our club organized for the Perry County Tennessee County Fair. Our club was called "The Perry County Geographic Society". We studied history, collected fossils and Indian relics. This exhibit shows some of the Indian relics my brother and I found around various sites in Perry County starting in the mid 1950s. There are some fossils included but unfortunately not visible in the photo.
The old musket hanging on the back is a Tower Confederate musket from the Civil War. The skull was found by a classmate along the road and partly damaged. Not too old, some unfortunate guy who got on the wrong side of a bullet I suppose.
I was 14 or 15 when this photo was taken.