TOWANDA, Ill. -- There's a point to the hobby that Lyle Merritt has enjoyed for more than 50 years. Merritt, 76, has been collecting arrowheads, ax heads and other American Indian artifacts since he ...

What are the most popular hobbies in the U.S.? Not sports but hobbies: collecting old things, building objects you like? "Jewelry!" the girls will cry. Guns and sports cars!" the men cry back. No ...

DUDLEY, Mo. -- When Leslie "Allen" Boyer looks for stone Indian artifacts, the stones usually don't look back. But there are always exceptions. "I was out surface hunting, walking around and looking ...

MEREDOSIA, Ill. (AP) -- Hundreds of American Indian artifacts have been stolen from a volunteer-run museum in this central Illinois community, according to museum board members.

, I’ll find myself walking through a freshly plowed field. Inevitably, I’ll spend as much time peering downward as I do listening skyward. I can’t help myself. I might be hunting gobblers, but I’m ...