This is Throwback Thursday #248.  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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Here is a poem written by Muriel Menzel of the Blackhawk Gem and Mineral Club.  The title is “The Afternoon Search”.  It was published in the January 1962 edition of the newsletter.  She and her husband Paul were both members of the club.  The describes a rock collecting trip by a husband and wife…

THE AFTERNOON SEARCH

We found the county quarry
    And wheeled in for a look…
She with all her heart and soul
    And I with my book.

“That’s honeycomb coral” she said,
    “As like as not”.
And I said “Favosites,”
    And she said, “What?”

Here’s a place where we should find
    A sea-lily or two”
I said “Echinoderms, you mean”
    And she said, “Who?”

We found a lot of fossils
    On that time-worn sea.
They were beautiful to her…
    They were beautiful to me.

— Mrs. Paul Menzel -Blackhawk G & MS —

Blackhawk Gem and Mineral Club is alive and well out around the Quad Cities.  They have been in business since 1955… just a little younger than ESCONI in 1949.