By Mary Fairchild My daughter exploring petroglyphs near Mesa, Arizona; 5/2014. I am fortunate to be able to visit Arizona annually where I find time to hike and trail run. Petroglyphs and pictograms are abundant in the Southwest (pictured above) and I have found them to be an added treasure to my time there. Naturally, when our local rock…
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Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art: Chinese Jade Carvings, Fossils, and Minerals
By Mary Fairchild The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art displays a large selection of Chinese jade and hard stone carvings from around the world as well as lapidary materials, fossils, meteorites, and minerals. My husband and I stopped in and chatted with Dorothy Ascher who is the granddaughter the museum’s founder, Joseph Lizzadro. Flickr Pictures…
If I Could Turn Back Time: ESCONI Rock Club
By Mary Fairchild “The Mazon Creek flora is renowned for being almost completely collected by amateurs. Since 1858, in an area covering approximately 100 square miles, untold numbers of collectors have gathered fossils in quantities unprecedented in North America.” Jack Wittry In the mid-1990s when our family first became interested in collecting fossils our electric bill…