Dig for the Treasures in Your Writing

Jim LaBate
4 min readNov 15, 2017
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In the days before banks and safety deposit boxes, people who wanted to hide or protect their treasures often buried them. Some of these treasures were never recovered, however, because their owners either died or were forced to leave their land before they had a chance to retrieve their buried items. As a result, modern archaeologists sometimes find these treasures when they dig near ancient cities or civilizations. As a…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.