Tag: TBT
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Throwback Thursday #104: McLuckie House from 1952 Newsletter
This is Throwback Thursday #104. 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! John and Lucy McLuckie were both avid collectors of Mazon Creek fossils. They sponsored yearly “combined club” field…
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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!
This is Throwback Thursday #98. 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’ve featured the poems of Charles Schweitzer a few times in the past. In Throwback Thursday #59, we…
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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
This is Throwback Thursday #94. 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! Dave’s Down To Earth Rock Shop was established in 1970 by the then twenty year old Dave Douglass. …
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Throwback Thursday #93: Gorgeous George
This is Throwback Thursday #93. 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! Before there was SUE the T. rex, there was “Gorgeous George”. If you are old enough to remember…
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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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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
This is Throwback Thursday #82. 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! Ogden Nash‘s poem “Fossils” is our throwback post for this week. Known for his light style of prose,…
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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!
This is Throwback Thursday #77. 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! Last Saturday, we had “Show and Tell” at the September Paleontology Study Group meeting. We met both in…
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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