He had found a Woburn campaign sticker from 1963, a prescription bottle dated 1967, and Budweiser beer cans with tab tops of the sort that Budweiser said they had stopped making in 1970. He had chopped down a stunted tree growing out of one pile and sent cross-sections to a botanist, who determined that the tree, eighteen years old now, had started growing in 1967.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 1707