This is Mazon Monday post #332.  What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil?  Tell us at esconi.info@gmail.com.

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Sorry, this is a bit of a repeat… But, Tom Testa has been on our minds lately and we’ve all been enduring a stretch of hot weather, so here’s a post that will cool you off!

Just imagine the treasures Tom found hidden in these concretions!

Other photos of Tom’s operation… The corner of these say April 1982.

What in that block of ice?!? This one appears to be from June 1985, so probably frozen a freezer.

These photos are courtesy of the Carbon Hill School Museum‘s Tom Testa Collection.  The museum is located in Carbon Hill, IL.  It has many historically significant photos, artifacts, and documents of the Coal City, Braidwood, and Wilmington area.  The curator, Michele Micetich, is very knowledgeable.  Visit her this summer for a trip back in time to the coal mining days of yesteryear!