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This month we are meeting at Greenbank Mill

Our Next Meeting: Monday, September 14, 2009

Location: Greenbank Mill, Wilmington, DE

Program:   To be announced

Tom Pankratz is turning over the reins of Programs VP.  He has done an outstanding job by inviting members and guest speakers to wow us with their professional and hobbyist expertise.

From Don Miller's "Fossilpalooza 2" to "How to Dig Up a Giant Dinosaur" by Jason Schein, much more, Tom has provided our club with fun and educational programs and people who presented them.

Thanks, Tom, for your fine service to our club!

What will our new VP come up with? Well, Stay Tuned.

 

Times: 11:00AM - PM Picnic Meeting

Refreshments: See Teddi Silver or Sophie Homesy to sign-up for our September 14, 2009 meeting snacks.

 teddis1@verizon.net or (610) 274-8929

[Ken Casey]

 

 

At Our Last Meeting: Saturday, June 13, 2009

Location: Brandywine Springs Park, Wilmington, DE

Program:   "Annual Picnic" (in lieu of Monday, June 8th Meeting)

This year our June meeting was on Saturday, June 13 at Brandywine Springs Park and we started at 11:00. As usual, we grilled food and asked that everyone brought an appetizer, side dish, or a dessert. Teddi had the sign-up sheet at the May meeting. We brought our hobby-related items you wished to sell or swap.

The park is less than a mile from the Greenbank Mill. From the intersection of Greenbank Road and Rt. 41 (Newport Gap Pike), travel 0.8 mile north on Rt. 41. At a light turn right onto Rt. 34 (Faulkland Road). The park is on your right. We have reserved the Lawson Pavilion which is at the back of the park near the baseball fields (sorry but the closer pavilions were booked on all possible dates).

Brandywine Springs Park was once the location of a resort and then an amusement park.  Historic photos are placed along the sides of the Hyde Run trail. In addition, the state mineral, sillimanite, has been found at Hyde Run and garnets are sometimes found in the boulders in the Red Clay Creek. Glad to have seen you there!

Tom

Times: 7:15PM - 8:45PM

Refreshments: Teddi Silver, Sophie Homesy

       
 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
     
   
   
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 

 

Past Programs

"Diamonds: Geology, Mineralogy & Gemology" by Tom Pankratz & Scott Peters

"Mica" by Wayne Urion

"How to Dig Up a Giant Dinosaur" by Jason Schein

"Annual 2007 Holiday Party & Silent Auction!"

"The Land Beneath Our Feet" by Tom Pankratz

"Fossil Fakes, Forgeries & Misconceptions" by  our own Gene Hartstein

"Show 'n Tell 2007"

"Annual 2007 Club Picnic & Sale!"

"Minerals of St. Hilaire, Canada" Presented by Phil Betancourt

"Field Collecting: Special Specimens, Good Friends, Great Memories" Presented by Alex Kane & Friends

"Caught in Canada, Minerals of Bancroft, Ontario Region" by Jim and Mimi Stauffer

"Putting Together Award-Winning Display Cases" by Wayne Urion & Esther Kerns

"Processing Minerals into Metals-History & Present" by Brownell Ferry

"Annual Holiday Party & Silent Auction"

"The Colors of Fluorite" by Ken Casey

"Preserving the Past: How to Manage Fossil Collections" by Jenn Anné

"Alaska" by Alex Kane and Tom Pankratz

"Mazon Creek Fossils" by Gene Hartstein

"Pearls" by Nancy Marks

"Mines & Minerals of Rush, Arkansas" by Eric Meier

"Faceting" by Tom Pankratz

Eric Meier's North American Collecting Locales

Holiday Party & Silent Auction

Joey Hatcher's "Maastrichtian Dinosaur Ecology of the Hell Creek Formation of Eastern Montana"

The Geology of Turkey

How to Buy & Sell on E-Bay

Ed Rowse's Trips to Peru, Ukraine & CA

Irenee du Pont Mineral Museum, U. of D.

Larry Krause's Collection

"Rhodochrosite: Red Treasure of the Rockies"

Don Miller's "Fossilpalooza!"

Eric Meier's "Tool Time at the Rock Club"

 

Questions & Comments: info@delminsociety.net

This page last updated:  June 18, 2009 09:43:52 PM

Next Meeting
 

September Program:

To be announced

General Club Meeting:
September 14, 2009
(Monday)

We are meeting at
Greenbank Mill


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