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As Crater of Diamonds prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary as a state park later this month, my thoughts turn to John Wesley Huddleston. He was the struggling farmer who found two diamonds in a field near Murfreesboro in August 1906, a find that received national media attention and set off a diamond rush as fortune seekers headed to Pike County. ....