Meet: Norm Jones
Location: Central Indiana
e mail: taxlaw@ind.tds.net
About me!
For
the past 8 years, I have worked as a self-employed business and
tax law consultant. I am licensed to practice law in Indiana.
Prior to going into business by myself, I worked for the Internal
Revenue Service for about 11 1/2 years. I have a B.S. in Business
Economics from Purdue University, a J.D. cum laude from William
Mitchell College of Law and a L.L.M. in Taxation from the
University of Florida. I have taught classes for the IRS and for
a business college. I worked one semester as a teaching assistant
at the University of Florida's College of Law. I
have been a
speaker at continuing education seminars for accountants. I have
helped write some training materials for the IRS.
My father, Ralph Jones, also collects relics and has since he was a young boy. Collecting relics has given me a common interest I can share with my father and has given us many fond memories of four decades of collecting.
How I got started collecting!
I cannot recall
when I first became fascinated by ancient man. I found my first
point, a Folsom, when I was about six. The point was a plastic
give away in a cereal box. Shortly after that, my uncle gave me
two points he had found when the foundation was dug on his house.
I had heard so many stories about my uncle, Ed Jones, and my
father in their escapades while searching for relics. The stories
hooked me and those first two points merely fueled that desire.
That really got me going and forty years later, I am still going.
What I like to collect!
My collection is rather general. However, my
primary interest is in relics from the mid-eastern US, primarily,
Ohio, Kentucky and especially, Indiana.
My favorite relic!
After over forty years of collecting,
without a doubt, my most favorite items are the first two points.
Those are the points my uncle gave me a couple weeks before his
death. He and my father had hunted fields for arrowheads when
they were young. He wanted to start me off.
A few other pieces are close to those first two points. My favorites all have a common link, the story behind the point. It is the fond memory of the story that makes a point one of my favorites. There is the point my mother found (in 1959) on the only time I got her to walk the fields hunting. There is the point my father found (also in 1959) on a walk through the fields after I had been unable to go out for and hunt a quite a while. I can sit a study and appreciate the workmanship that went into those pieces. Also, I can sit and recall the story of how I came to have it. Perhaps, it is the memories that I collect.
For more pics of my relics please visit my homepage!
http://pages.about.com/normj/index.html
Also please visit my Arrowhead Collecting For Kids page!