Tag: Elgin Public Museum
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Buy Ice Cream to Support Elgin Public Museum
EPM Fundraiser at Oberweis! Everyone deserves a mid-week treat. This Wednesday, July 16th with any purchase at Oberweis, they will donate 30% of the purchase price to the Elgin Public Museum. This offer is only good at their Elgin Location, 400 S. Randall Rd. which is just south of Rt 20 on the west side…
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Events In Last Half of July 2011
Sat., 7/23, Geodes and Gems, Elgin Public Museum, Noon-2 PM; Free Geodes are one of the coolest phenomena of geology; deceptively like a regular rock at first glance, when cracked open, geodes reveal beautiful quartz formations. Discover how they formed and even have a chance to crack open one for yourself. Museum representatives will be…
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Events for Weekend 2/18 – 2/20, 2011
Fri. 2/18 – Physics Family Science Night, Elgin Public Museum, Elgin, 6-8 PM; Fee: $2 per person, no registration required. Sat. 2/19 – Opening of new exhibit at Burpee Museum in Rockford IL – Giants! African Dinosaurs. Sat. 2/19 – Rock & Mineral Identification, Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, Elmhurst, 8 yrs to adult, 10:30…
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Events This Weekend
Friday, Sept. 24: ESCONI Board Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Bldg. K, Rm. 142 (note room change) Friday, Sept. 24: Family Science Night: Paleontology, 6-8 p.m., Elgin Public Museum. Saturday and Sunday, Sept, 25 & 26: Braceville Mazon Creek Fossil Collecting Trip, 8:00 am, meet at BP Amoco in Coal City Saturday, Sept 25,…
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Local events of interest this weekend, 2010
Friday, September 17, 7:00 pm – Elgin Public Museum, Elgin, IL, Lecture – “Archaeology of Disaster.” Fire, flood, famine, war, plague, earthquake . . . All major disasters leave distinctive signatures in the archaeological record. From the New Madrid quakes of 1811 and 1812 that changed the very course of the Mississippi River, to the…
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This Weekend
Friday, 6/11 – ESCONI General Meeting. James St. John, from Ohio State University at Newark, will be speaking on “Weird Fossils & Fossil Oddities” at the ESCONI General Meeting at 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Saturday, 6/12 – Mineralogy & Micromount Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K,…
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Event at Elgin Public Museum: Catherine Bird, “Digging Up The Past”
“Digging Up the Past”, Catherine Bird, PhD, RPA, an archaeologist affiliated with Midwest Archaeological Research Services will speak on “Long’s 1823 Expedition through Elgin, an 1840 General Land Office Plat, and a Late Prehistoric Site in Sleepy Hollow” Her talk at the Elgin Public Museum will focus on the local natural history and archaeology right…
