June Picnic

The next Athens Rock and Gem club meeting will be our annual spring picnic. The date will be Sunday, June 24th. The hours: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. this year’s event will be hosted by Jim and Terry Maudsley . Location: Jim and Terry’s home - 400 University Circle, Athens GA. Jim and Terry’s home is on the eastside of Athens off College Station Road. If you plan to attend, RSVP to Jim and Terry at 353-1792.

 

Bring your own lawn chairs if you wish. Also, plan to bring something like a covered dish or extra fancy dessert. The Club will provide hamburgers and hotdogs, along with drinks, cups, dishes, plasticware, napkins, etc.

There will be an auction consisting of the items donated by club members. The auction will be held after the picnic at the Maudsley home. If you have something to donate please bring it for the auction. It will be greatly appreciated.

May Meeting

We had fifteen members and one guest at the May meeting. Topics discussed during the business part of the meeting was a flyer that Walt and Casey made to put around town to let the public know about our club and possibly bring in new members. We also discussed the June picnic.

Susan Richardson

Susan Richardson gave a wonderful and very interesting presentation “Digging for Fossils in the Peace River”.

Susan and her family went on a trip to the Peace River in a tiny town called Wauchula, FL. They went in early January this year with a guide, Mark Renz. She brought examples of what they found and had a video of a special that ran recently on the Travel Channel that had Mark Renz their guide digging for fossils in the same river and telling how to do it. Susan also had slides of their trip and what they found. She showed us slides of how she used shovels to dig the material from the river to put into screens and the screening process.

Susan and her family found many wonderful fossils which she had on display at the meeting! Thank you Susan for another fantastic program and for letting us all know of another great place to fossil hunt!

April Meeting

Topics discussed during the business part of the meeting was a flyer that Walt and Casey made to put around town to let the public know about our club and possibly bring in new members. We also discussed the June picnic. When, where and time will be discussed at the May meeting. We will also have an auction. If anyone has anything to donate for the auction it will be greatly appreciated.

Kim CochranKim Cochran presented our April program on "Fossilization". Kim gave a very informative program on fossils. He told us about the different kinds of fossils used for dating certain formations, to study the environment in a previous time. Kim brought many wonderful specimens. He also brought specimens for door prizes. Thanks Kim for another wonderful program!
 

some fossils from Kim's program

Some fossils from Kim's program.