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Advertisement: “I was very close to my grandfather, so just to hear his name and that somebody found something of his and for it to be that as well, it’s just an amazing feeling,” Minkle said. Porter, who died in 2018, was locally known as the “Thermometer Man” for his extensive collection and museum of thermometers, which got him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Porter was also a science teacher and an Air Force Korean War veteran. “For the guy John to go out of his w...

Richard Porter of Onset made it his life’s work to acquire the largest collection of thermometers in the world, earning him the nickname “Thermometer Man.” He passed in 2018, but Porter’s family received one more gift from him on Sunday after a treasure hunter found Porter’s Air Force dog tag buried in the sand. Porter and his grandson, Danny Minkle, were thick as thieves. Minkle lost his mother when he was only 15 and was raised by his loving maternal grandparents. “He was a teach...