Getting hooked after discovering a treasure chest under my home

When J.M. Barrie created the fictional character of Captain Hook in 1904, I’m quite sure he never expected him to show up in the crawlspace under my house 122 years later.

Yet, there he was, the captain of the pirate ship, The Jolly Roger, in Barrie’s original play, “Peter Pan or the Boy Who Would not Grow Up.”

I was feeling quite an affinity for that boy as the rusty old pirate’s trunk was pulled from its shelter. Like Peter Pan, I guess I had not grown up that much either, as...