So reads a story from the Daily News website.
An unexploded artillery shell unearthed in the Southeast Tlingit village of Kake 70 years ago and kept as conversation piece by a Kake family has suddenly drawn the attention of military bomb experts, but Kake community leaders are telling the authorities to hold off on disposing of it. The shell is believed to be a remnant of the 1869 "Kake War," in which the Navy shelled and burned the village in response to a Tlingit hunting party's revenge murder of two white miners.
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