Search for buried engine stalls at Wilson

YOUNGSTOWN — They came armed with metal detectors and photos, lining up where they thought they had buried a car engine behind Woodrow Wilson High School 37 years ago.

Then, with the school district’s blessing, they dug a hole, and then another, and another and still another, until the end of the athletic field was a mass of holes and mounds of dirt.

They found an eight-track tape player, an empty 55-gallon barrel, a 10-foot chunk of a utility pole and some crushed beer cans, but they didn’t find the engine that had been buried in the first celebration of Earth Day in 1970.

The school district’s decision to raze Wilson and replace it with a middle school prompted the high school alumni to band together this weekend for what they’re calling “Wilson’s Last Stand.”

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