Category: Flashback Friday
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #43: Field Trip To Rosiclare, IL For Fluorite
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #43. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some pictures of a field trip to a fluorite mine in Rosiclare, IL in Hardin County. There is the American Fluorite Museum in…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #42: ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show 2000
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #42. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some notes and pictures from the ESCONI show in 2000. It was held on March 4th and 5th, 2000. ESCONI has been having…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #41: George Langford Night 1958
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #41. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! The release of the first Langford book, “The Wilmington Coal Flora from a Pennsylvannian Deposit in Will County, Illinois”, occurred in June 1958. On June…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #40: Lemont Quarry 1952
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #40. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are pictures to a quarry in Lemont, IL in 1952. The Lemont quarries were known for the diversity of the trilobites that could be…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #39: Poem from November 1950
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #39. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is a poem that appeared in the November 1950 edition of the ESCONI newsletter. It was written by Peggy Allaway, daughter of Bill Allaway,…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #38: Hunting Gold in Alaska
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #38. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Rich Rock joined ESCONI in 1970. And, come on… could there be a better name for a member of ESCONI? He has served as Field…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #37: Andy Hay Speaks at Lizzadro on Mazon Creek Plants – March 10th, 2001
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #37. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Andy Hay was a long time ESCONI member. He joined in 1976 and was a member to the very end. He wrote the Creature Corner…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #36: SUE at the Field Museum
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #36. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! SUE had her Grand Opening at the Field Museum on May 17th, 2000. Here is a link to the ESCONI page to document the event. …
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #35: Dresden Lakes Field Trip June 1976
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #35. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are pictures from a field trip to Dresden Lakes in 1976. Dresden Lakes is known for larger concretions with detailed fossils in dark colors,…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #34: Pictures From a Fossil Field Trip To Indiana May 4-5, 1957
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #34. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some pictures from a field trip to a few localities in Indiana May 4-5, 1957. No hard hats and check out those clothes!…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #33: Plant Life Through The Ages
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #33. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! The “Plant Life Through The Ages” display was created by ESCONI members during the 1950s. Here is a description from Kathy Dedina, who was president…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #32: Collecting Mazon Creek Concretions In The 1950s and 1960s
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #32. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Enjoy some old photos of the Coal City, Braidwood, and Wilmington area spoil piles in the 1950s and 1960s. It’s too bad some of those…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #31: Andy Hay Memorial Scholarship
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #31. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Andy Hay was a long time ESCONI member. He joined in 1976 and was a member to the very end. He wrote the Creature Corner…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #30: Jim and Sylvia Konecny
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #30. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Jim and Sylvia Konecny were very active in the early days of ESCONI. Jim held a few posts on the ESCONI board, including president from…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #29: Braidwood Field Trip on September 27th, 1959
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #29. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some photos from a Braidwood Field Trip on September 27th, 1959. This was an annual field trip, which included multiple clubs. Check out…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #28: Mazon Creek Open House Report 2002
As part of the celebration of ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #28. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is the announcement of the 2002 Mazon Creek Project Open House. From the sound of the report that follows, it very surely an interesting…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #27: 10th Anniversary Pictures
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #27. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some pictures from the 10th Anniversary celebration. ESCONI Board at Pugh’s – G. Law, O. Fether, R. Bish, M. Cornwell, V. Montgomery…
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Happy 70th Birthday ESCONI!
ESCONI (Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois) was founded on November 11, 1949 with an initial meeting of 13 people interested in Earth Sciences. William Allaway was the 1st President of ESCONI. The purpose of ESCONI: The aim of the Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois is to promote an interest in the earth sciences,…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #26: Field Trip to Dixon, IL 05-24-1959
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #26. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some pictures from a field trip to Dixon, IL on May 24th, 1958. Field trips in the past were much more of…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #25: Ode to a Blob
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #25. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Rob Sula wrote this poem back in 2002. Rob as 1st Vice-President from 2008-2014. The poem is about Essexella asherae, the iconic Mazon Creek…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #24: 60 Years of ESCONI by Kathy Dedina
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #24. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! The dedication for the 60th Anniversary was written by Kathy Dedina and appeared in the January 2010 issue of The Earth Science News. She…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #23: Year Summaries From the 20th Anniversary
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #23. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is part of the 20th Anniversary issue of The Earth Science News. It lists many of the ESCONI events in the years 1965…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #22: Interesting Memories From the Early Days of ESCONI (15th Anniversary)
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #22. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! For this Flashback Friday post, we have two letters that appeared in the 15th Anniversity issue of the Earth Science News. The first is…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #21: 10th Anniversary President’s Message
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #21. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! In the 10th Anniversary edition of the Earth Science News, ESCONI President Wilbur L. Hoff had this message. While smaller now than we once…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #20: ESCONI Class Song from 1967
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #20. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is a song composed by some ESCONI members way back in 1967. The lyrics are by June Lyon Douglass. It should be sung…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #18: So, Where’s The Shrimp? By Andy Jansen
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #18. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! We have our Fall Braceville Field Trip coming up next weekend – September 14th and 15th, 2019. Here is an article about Braceville collecting…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #17: Stephen J. Gould at the Field Museum
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #17. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! On Thursday, September 14, 2000. ESCONI co-sponsored a Steven J. Gould lecture with the Field Museum. This was a huge event for ESCONI, with…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #16: Karen’s Komments
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #16. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Karen Nordquist’s monthly column in “The Earth Science News” started as “DINO News” in January 1998 and continued under that name until December 1999. …
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #15: 40th Anniversary
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #15. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some pictures from the ESCONI 40th Anniversary Party. Pictured are Kathy Dedina, President, Chet Williamson, Doris Kemp, Betty Williamson, Mary Cornwell, Earl…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #14: George Langford
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #14. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Jim Konecny wrote this piece for the June 1994 edition of the ESCONI Earth Science News. This year marked the 55th anniversary of George’s…
