Tag: history
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Throwback Thursday #103: Field Trip to Jacob’s Geodes 2007
This is Throwback Thursday #103. 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! Back when the MAPS show was at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL, there would be an annual…
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Throwback Thursday #102: ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 1992
This is Throwback Thursday #102. 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! ESCONI has been holding a show in the spring since about 1960. In the mid 1970’s, it became…
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Throwback Thursday #101: The Easy Way Out
This is Throwback Thursday #101. 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! Another Bill Allaway poem is our Throwback Thursday post for this week. Bill was the first chairman of…
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Throwback Thursday #100: Looking Back at ESCONI for March 2022
This is Throwback Thursday #100. 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! 25 Years Ago – March 1997 50 Years Ago – March 1972 70 Years Ago – March 1952…
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Throwback Thursday #99: Western Electric Magazine Rockhounds
This is Throwback Thursday #99. 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! William Allaway was one of the founders of ESCONI. He served as the first Chairman/President of ESCONI from…
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Throwback Thursday #98: The Rock I Threw Away!
Today, we have “The Rockhound’s Creed” a poem by Agate Pete, which appeared in the October 1957 edition of the newsletter.
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Throwback Thursday #97: Fishing the Eocene Age
This is Throwback Thursday #97. 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! An article from FRIENDS magazine entitled “Fishing the Eocene Age” appeared back in the January 1972 edition of…
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Throwback Thursday #96: Looking Back at ESCONI for February 2022
This is Throwback Thursday #96. 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! 25 Years Ago – February 1997 50 Years Ago – February 1972 70 Years Ago – February 1952…
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Throwback Thursday #95: Who’s Who: Who Were Howard and Olive Knight?
This is Throwback Thursday #95. 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! If we look back into the early history of ESCONI, there are a few names that show up…
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Throwback Thursday #94: Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop – September 1973
Dave’s Down To Earth Rock Shop was established in 1970 by the then twenty year old Dave Douglass. He stocked the store with material from his own collection, which he started when he was just 9! The shop is located in Evanston, IL and easily reached via car, Metra, and El train.
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Throwback Thursday #93: Gorgeous George
Before there was SUE the T. rex, there was “Gorgeous George”. If you are old enough to remember when SUE first showed up at the Field Museum, you probably remember the “T. rex.” in the Field Museum’s main gallery, where it stood over a Lambeosaurus. As a kid, I really loved that display. It was…
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Throwback Thursday #92: Looking Back at ESCONI for January 2022
This is Throwback Thursday #92. 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! 25 Years Ago – January 1997 50 Years Ago – January 1972 70 Years Ago – January 1952
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Throwback Thursday #91: Winter Collecting 1963
This is Throwback Thursday #91. 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! The snow this week had me looking through the newsletters looking for a winter field trips. Many of…
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Throwback Thursday #90: The Night After a Field Trip
This is Throwback Thursday #90. 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! We have a real nice holiday themed post for today. It’s a poem called “The Night After a…
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Throwback Thursday #89: A B C’s Of What One Can Do With Rocks
This is Throwback Thursday #89. 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! This week we have sort of a poem, but at least a list about what else… rocks! This…
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Roy Plotnick: I found a fossil!! (or did I?)
Roy Plotnick has a new post over on Medium. In this one, he gives some great tips for those occasions when you’re out on a walk and find a rock and hope it’s a fossil. You are walking along a creek bed when you see an oddly shaped and colored rock. You pick it up…
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Throwback Thursday #88: Looking Back at ESCONI for December 2021
This is Throwback Thursday #88. 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! 25 Years Ago – December 1996 50 Years Ago – December 1971 70 Years Ago – December 1951
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Throwback Thursday #87: Field & Street
This is Throwback Thursday #87. 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! Field & Street was a column in the Chicago Reader from at least 1984 until April 2004. For…
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Throwback Thursday #86: Happy Thanksgiving!
This is Throwback Thursday #86. 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! For this Thanksgiving Edition of Throwback Thursday, we are only going back to 2016. That year, the Field…
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Throwback Thursday #85: Rockhound’s Poem From March 1971
This is Throwback Thursday #85. 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! Today, we have a poem from the March 1971 edition of the newsletter. It has a simple name,…
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Throwback Thursday #84: The Dinosaur
This is Throwback Thursday #84. 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! We have a poem called “The Dinosaur” this week. It comes from the Chicago Tribune’s “Line ‘O Type…
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Throwback Thursday #83: Looking Back at ESCONI November 2021
This is Throwback Thursday #83. 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! 25 Years Ago – November 1996 50 Years Ago – November 1971
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Throwback Thursday #82: Fossils by Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash’s poem “Fossils” is our throwback post for this week. Known for his light style of prose, Nash (1902 – 1971) was an Ameican poet who used pun-like rhyming in his work. Sometimes, he even misspelled words for effect. He published numerous collections of poems. During the early and middle 20th century, he wrote…
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Throwback Thursday #81: Wisconsin Dells Field Trip October 19th, 1952
This is Throwback Thursday #81. 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! For this week, we are looking back at a field trip to the Wisconsin Dells back on October…
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Throwback Thursday #80: ESCONI Flea Market October 2000
This is Throwback Thursday #80. 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! In the past, the ESCONI Flea Market was a somewhat regular event. There would be no vendors like…
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Throwback Thursday #79: Looking Back at ESCONI October 2021
This is Throwback Thursday #79. 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! 25 Years Ago – October 1996 50 Years Ago – October 1971
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Throwback Thursday #78: Revisiting an Indiana Field Trip May 4-5, 1957
This is Throwback Thursday #78. 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! Back in Flashback Friday #34, we posted some picture from a fossil field trip to Indiana on May…
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Throwback Thursday #77: Brag Night!
Last Saturday, we had “Show and Tell” at the September Paleontology Study Group meeting. We met both in person at the College of Dupage and on Zoom. It was great to get together and see old friends and meet some new ones. Traditionally, the September meetings have been “Show and Tell”, but in the old…
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Throwback Thursday #76: Rock Hounds
This is Throwback Thursday #76. 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! Poems were very popular in the ESCONI newsletters of the 1950’s and 1960’s. It’s hard to say if…
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Throwback Thursday #75: Looking Back at ESCONI September 2021
This is Throwback Thursday #75. 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! 25 Years Ago – September 1996 50 Years Ago – September 1971
