This is Throwback Thursday #67.  In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general.  If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com.  Thanks!

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25 Years Ago – July/August 1996

• Dave Bergmann was named “Rockhound of the Year” by the Midwest Federation.
• A field trip was planned in August that included a stop at “Red Metal Days” at Michigan Technological University in Houghton. In the present day the event is called “Keweenaw Mineral Days” and is still going on.
• George Langford Jr. sent ESCONI the original notebook manuscripts for Langford books one and two and the unpublished book three.  ESCONI donated these historical documents to the Illinois State Museum.
• The 1996 ESCONI Library Catalog was published in the newsletter.

50 Years Ago – July/August 1971

• The “Micromount of the Month” was Goethite
• Tony Sobolik wrote about the Paleontology Field Trip to Tunnel Mill in Indiana, Sulphur Kentucky, the Louisville Cement Quarry in Speed, IN, and a road cut in Harrodsburg, KY.  The field trip lasted from Friday, May 29th to Monday May 31st.  Wow, they really knew how to collect back then!
• “Life is a grindstone and whether it grinds a man down or polished him up depends on the stuff he’s made of”. From the Ozark Earth Science News.
• “If you with litter will disgrace
        And spoil the beauty of this place
  May indigestion rack your chest
        And ants invade your pants and vest!”
  

  From “Rock Talk”