By Mary Fairchild In all North America, the Mazon Creek flora has the largest number of species and greatest taxonomic diversity of any Moscovian Pennsylvanian period assemblage. More than 200 species have been documented, of which the majority are fern and seed fern foliage. Jack Wittry Jack Wittry has written six scientific articles and has published two…
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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…
Exploring the Great Basin: Anza-Borrego Desert, Calico Early Man Site, to Boarding the Coral Pink Sand Dunes
By Mary Fairchild Anza-Borrego Desert The Great Basin stretches from southern Idaho to Southern California which includes all, or portions, of Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. Its southwestern parts are now known as the Mojave and Colorado Deserts of Southern California. In this large, generally dry, mountain-studded region of the West the rivers do not flow to the sea…
Dinosaur Bone Hunting
By Mary Fairchild2015, New Castle, Wyoming. When dinosaurs walked the earth, a vast inland sea had covered the area from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, our families can walk the earth and uncover the very paths of the dinosaurs through trips with Dr. Steve Nicklas of Paleo Prospectors. For the past several years…
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Fossil/Geology/Paleontology Dinner With Frederick Schram (Mazon Creek Fossils) Dinosaur Bone Hunting(Wyoming; South Dakota; Paleo Prospectors) ESCONI Rock Club: If I Could Turn Back Time Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art: Chinese Jade Carvings, Fossils, and Minerals Mazon Creek Fossils (Illinois fossils) Mid-America Paleontology Society Annual Fossil Show Moves to Iowa Paul Sereno: African Dinosaurs Exhibit 2011…
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Sweet Home Chicago I was born and raised in the Chicago area the daughter of ballroom dancers who met at the Aragon Theater. My father, who grew up speaking German in his home, church, and place of work, performed a dance demo for Fred Astaire when he was in town looking to purchase a new…