This is Throwback Thursday #268. 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! email:esconi.info@gmail.com.

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25 Years Ago – June 2000

• The General Meeting featured Don Cronauer doing a presentation about “Ancient Historical Sites of England and Anglesey, North Wales”.
• Dave Carlson had a paper published in the Journal of Paleontology “Suture modification by pectinirhomb growth in Lepadocystis decorus, a new species of callocystitid glyptocystitid rhombiferan (Echinodermata) from Illinois”.
• “Karen’s Komments” had pieces about SUE’s Brain, Chinese Troodons, at the biggest (at the time) sauropod Sauroposeidon.  There was also a piece about the controversy around dinosaur bone histology.
• The Lizzadro Museum had a couple events that month – “The Diamond Deception” and “Stone Hunt”.

50 Years Ago – June 1975

• The General Meeting had Mrs. Olive Sherman discussing jewelry making in her presentation titled “Wire Twisting”.
• The Mineralogy Study Group was discussing places to collect during the summer.
• Micro-mounting had a presentation about “Symmetry in Minerals”.  The presenter was Horace Greene.
• There was a field trip to Bowling Green, Missouri to collect “beautiful” crinoids.
• The Micromount of the Month was Boleites – a beautiful deep blue crystal.

70 Years Ago – June 1955

• The Regular Meeting was part 2 of Jay Farr’s “The World We Live In”.
• There was a field trip to the strip mines to collect Mazon Creek fossils.  Can we come along?
• The Midwest Convention was held June 23rd, 24th, and 25th at the Hotel Tuler in Detroit, Michigan
• ESCONI had a display at the Midwest Convention.  A bunch of members contributed to the display.
• There was a note about Acryloid, which (at the time) was painted on fossils to preserve them.