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 sent them to [email protected]. Thanks!
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Poems were very popular in the ESCONI newsletters of the 1950's and 1960's. It's hard to say if the popularity was a product of the times or just an interest of the newsletter editors. Maybe a clue is the number of poems credited to the newsletters of other clubs. It's not surprising that rock hounds are a common theme in these poems. This week, we have a poem entitled "Rock Hounds" by Naidene Guy. This poem is in the November 1951 issue of the newsletter. Not much information is available about Ms. Guy, but there was a Miss Naidene Goy on the History Committee for a book on the history of Hinsdale, IL in 1949. Maybe a coincidence, but she was an English teacher, who wrote a paper called "Let's Build A Poem".
Rock Hounds
The "hunt-chip-and polish" men and femmes
Look high and low for petrified bones,
Fossils, concretions, and calcified stems,
Which other folks merely call stones.Searching for geodes, nodules, et cetera,
They taste and chip stones to find out better-a
Means of naming each, treasure they've found-
Treasures which others would leave on the ground.Though ignorance is bliss to some folk, I vow
That rock hounds are happy, and how!
They're happy with minerals, boulders, and old bones
Though they can't live in glass houses because they throw stones.-- Naidene Guy
