Above: "Fungus documenting a 1924 climb to the top of the Hunter Mountain Observatory," from the Mystery Spot's website.
Laura Levine, the proprietress of Phoenicia's Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques, finds all sorts of treasures in attics, basements, and auctions around the Catskills.
Today she sent us a gem: a fungus that commemorates a family's hike up Hunter Mountain in 1924.
Apparently, scratching a record of the hike into the soft skin of an artists' fungus was an excellent way of memorializing an outing -- the words can still be read 85 years later. Levine has a full transcription of what the fungus says on the Mystery Spot blog.
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