Tag: Flashback Friday
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #12: Moon Rocks At Argonne
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #12. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! From the September 1969 edition of the ESCONI “The Earth Science News”. Some Moon rocks were studied at Argonne National Laboratory in 1969 and…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #11: September 1969 Field Trip – Sylvania Ohio on Labor Day Weekend by Bill and Virginia Popp
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #11. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is a poem about a September 1969 Field Trip to Sylvania, OH. It was written by Bill and Virginia Popp and appeared in…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #10: Tony Sobolik, I Remember…………
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #10. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is an article entitled “I Remember…………” by Anton “Tony” Sobolik that appeared in the 40th Anniversary issue of the newsletter in 1989. He…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #9: Illinois State Fossil – The Tully Monster
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #9. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! The following article appeared in the 50th Anniversary issue of the newsletter. Unfortunately, Francis Tully (yes! an ESCONI member!) didn’t live to see it,…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #8: Field Trips for 2007
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #8. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is the Field Trip list for 2007. Generally, in the past, we kicked off the season at Jacob’s Geodes in March with a…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #7: Matthew Galloway’s Exciting Discovery June 2000
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #7. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here’s a report from Matthew Galloway’s discovery of an amphibian bone in the Lone Star Quarry on June 4th, 2000. What a find! Matthew…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #6: Field Trip to Pit 11 September 1976
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary. Here is Flashback Friday post #6. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Kathy Dedina had some great pictures from past ESCONI events. Here are a series of pictures from a Pit 11 field trip in September…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #5: Dinner With Dr. Frederick Schram in August, 2011
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary. Here is Flashback Friday post #4. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Mary Fairchild did an excellent report about her dinner with Dr. Frederick Schram in August, 2011. There is much to enjoy in the report,…
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Flashback Friday #4: Braceville Trip 05/16/2009
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary. Here is Flashback Friday post #4. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Sometimes referred to as “Worm Hill”, the Braceville spoil pile dates to at least the 1880s. ESCONI hasn’t been going here since then, but…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #3: Chicagoland Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show in 2001
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary. Here is Flashback Friday post #3. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some pictures from the 2001 Chicagoland Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Notice that the show was held at the DuPage County Fairgrounds…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #2: 1951 Club Officers
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary. Here is Flashback Friday post #2. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! 1951 was the second year of ESCONI’s existence. Membership dues were $2 for an Active Membership. Other memberships included, Associate at $1.25, Junior $0.75,…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #1: Field Trip to a Joliet Quarry in June 1951
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary. Here is Flashback Friday post #1. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is an article that describes a field trip to a Joliet quarry in Jun 1951. Notice the clothes… Sunday best? And, what?!?, no…
