This is Throwback Thursday #83.  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 – November 1996

• The November 1996 program was “Mound Builders of the Americas”, by Les Marszalek.
• The Juniors meeting in November 1996 provided a chance to build an erupting volcano.
• ESCONI member Andrew Hay presented a program at Lizzadro Museum On November 16, 1996 called “Plant Life Through the Ages: The Illinois Fossil Story”.

50 Years Ago – November 1971

• The October 1971 Earth Science News describes “Brag Night” for the Paleontology Study Group, during which Jim Konecny displayed a 52- pound ammonite from Texas, and a 23-pound dinosaur vertebra from Utah!
• The annual ESCONI Silent Auction was held on October 8, 1971. This activity stopped several years ago, but was brought back this year in the form of the “Fall Sale”.
• The following words of wisdom came from a newsletter called “The Geode”: “Once you get a mouthful of very hot coffee, whatever you do next is going to be wrong”.