This is Throwback Thursday #225. 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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The June 1951 edition of the newsletter had a couple pages of charming artwork that detailed Wilbur and Donnafred Hoff's plans during the summer of 1951. We've posted previously on the Hoff's, with a favorite being "Mid-century Mazon Creek" in Mazon Monday #104. In that post, we discover just how cheap and plentiful Mazon Creek fossils were back in the day.
The following photo shows Wilbur and Donnafred in 1958. They were both very active in ESCONI.
Many ESCONI members talked of their vacations in the past newsletters, both before and after they went. This piece by the Hoff's has an alphabet theme and details everything they planned to do on their trip into the American west during the summer of 1951.
I think my favorite is "Wrestling Writhing Wrattlesnakes", but "Tracking Terrible Triceratops", "Arduously Acquiring Agates", "Justifiably Jubilant over Jade and Jasper", and "Industriously Ignoring Insatiable Insects" are very good, too. Actually, they are all good and imaginative.
Enjoy, and we hope you have some "Variously Vivacious Vacations" this summer!
