This is Throwback Thursday #255. 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! email:[email protected].
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College students and archaeologists at the Koster Site in 1973
25 Years Ago - March 2000
- The ESCONI Show was held on March 4th and 5th, 2000.
- The Mineralogy Study Group was looking at Unusual Crystal Forms - twins and pseudomorphs.
- The Larson Quarry near DeKalb was the subject of the Paleontology meeting.
- Archaeology was discussing ways to protect priceless artifiacts from present and past sites. That's a problem that has gotten worse as time has passed.
- Bill Popp, an ESCONI member since 1967, passed away. He and his wife Virginia were Junior Group leaders for many years.
- Karen's Komments had information about evolution and the bird-dinosaur fossil problem.
50 Years Ago - March 1975
- The ESCONI show was called the Indoor Field Trip at that time. It was held on March 1st and 2nd, 1975.
- ESCONI was working on displays for the Chicago Flower and Garden Show to be held in April.
- The General Meeting's topic was "From Dirt to Numbers, Or How the Prehistoric Inhabitants of the Koster Site Lived". It was presented by Dr. James A. Brown of Northwestern University.
- The Mineralogy Study Group was discussing "Minerals and Man - Copper"
- Lapidary held a "Jewelry Photography Night". Mr. Robert Davis was there to take photographs... what no cell phones?
70 Years Ago - March 1955
- The Regular Meeting featured Dr. Eugene Richardson, Jr. and Dr. Robert H. Whitfield of the Chicago Natural History Museum. They were lecturing on "The Fauna and Flora of the Pennsyvalian Deposits Near Braidwood". That would have been very interesting!
- There was a field trip to the Chicago Natural History Museum on March 19th.
- The Paleontology Meeting met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Barrick. The subject was "Index Fossils" presented by Bill Allaway.
- John and Dorothy Ade joined ESCONI. Their son Richard was listed as a junior member.
