See if there is a MD club in either Middletown or Hamilton. If so, go to a meeting.
Failing that, contact the MD club in Cincy; go to their meeting and ask who are their members in your area.
Don....
PS: Mid American Champs!!
If you guys might be interested in fossils, there's plenty of them (trilobites, etc.) on the walls of a river bed just outside of Oxford. If the location of that site is not known to you, contact the geology dept. of MU; they do frequent field trips to the area--at least they used to.
Don....
im from the same area i mainly search for indian artifacts and old dumps, i have yet to get a metal detector but i know of a few places around the area where i have found old coins and relics surface hunting if anyone has an extra detector to bring along id be interested in searching a couple of areas