Gilsum Rock Swap and Mineral Show to be Held June 25-26, 2016

Gilsum Rock Swap and Mineral Show to be Held June 25-26, 2016

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Gilsum Rock Swap and Mineral Show to be Held June 25-26, 2016
Gilsum, NH — The town of Gilsum, located in the scenic Monadnock Region in
southwestern NH, will once again host thousands of people from all over the
U.S. who will attend the Gilsum Rock Swap and Mineral Show. Here more than
65 dealers, swappers, distributors, wholesalers and collectors can buy, sell, or
swap beryl, quartz crystals, semi-precious stones, and rocks and minerals of
all sorts. Displays range from newly found specimens in the rough to fossils,
prized collector’s pieces and hand-crafted jewelry.
The event takes place at the Gilsum Elementary School grounds, Route 10 in
Gilsum, just north of Keene, NH, and is about 2 hours from Boston. Show
hours are 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM Saturday and 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Sunday.
This year’s event includes a two special presentations. Saturday, June 27th at
1:00 PM, geologist and collector Nancy Swing will discuss “Rockhounding in
New England.” Swing is a former professor of Geology and Oceanography at
the Community College of Rhode Island, has been the featured speaker at the
East Coast Gem and Mineral show for the last 14 years, and is a regular at
the Gilsum Rock Swap & Mineral Show. Prized specimens will be on display.
The presentation will be held at the Elementary School gymnasium adjacent
to the field.
In addition, noted collector Steve Garza will also offer a prospecting for
beginners demonstration, including the proper way to break a rock to uncover
the minerals or precious stones within. That takes place at 2:00 PM at space
#40 on the field.
Gilsum’s many mines operated until the 1940s and yielded feldspar, mica
and beryl. Most are now abandoned, although one, the Beauregard mine, is
available to mineral clubs through prior arrangement. Today collectors prize
other minerals such as beryl. Maps showing locations of local mines are
available during the show.
Since the show’s inception, the town of Gilsum has opened its doors for the
event. Activities include a presentation on prospecting Saturday, daily
pancake brunch, bake sale, book sale, a traditional Saturday night New
England ham and bean supper with homemade pies and a chicken barbeque
dinner Sunday afternoon.
Admission is free, although donations are graciously accepted. All proceeds
go to youth recreation and community programs.
For more information please contact Robert Mitchell at the Gilsum Recreation
Committee, P.O. Box 76, Gilsum, NH, 03448; call 603.357-9636; or send email
to gilsumrocks@gmail.com.

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Gem, Mineral, Jewelry and Fossil Show in Long Island

Gem, Mineral, Jewelry & Fossil Show in Long Island!
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Island Rockhounds, Inc.
presents their 43rd Annual
Gem, Mineral, Jewelry & Fossil Show
Saturday March 12th & Sunday March 13th
10 am – 5 pm

Show this ticket from your smart phone, or print it out old-fashioned style and present at the entrance for discount admission. American Geode are members of this Eastern Federation club. We have many friends in the Island Rockhounds. They are a fun, smart, and very nice group of people. Not only is the show full of friendly dealers of gems, minerals and fossils from rough to high-end, and everything in between, but you will also find some jewelry dealers with unique and affordable pieces, and gem and mineral artwork is also found at this very special show. Please tell them that “American Geode sen’cha!” as they will get a real kick out of that at the door if you tell them you are also friends with American Geode.

Have a great time and #GetoutandRockhound!

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Rockhounds, Naturally Conservationists and Environmentalists

Rockhounds follow lessons out in the wild, wilderness, desert and forest that are also valuable in the city. Rockhounds know to bring their own bags, backpacks, saddle bags or pouches with their gear, and also with their finds consisting of gems, minerals, fossils and other stones. For me, this also applies when I am out here in New York City. I bring a backpack, side-bag or saddle bag when I leave the apartment because I am a collector. Like most rockhounds, we are collectors, as well as adventurers and discoverers.
Hence, and the purpose and motivation of this essay, I find myself bothered when I buy a can of soda, or a few items from the grocery store, and the clerk insists on putting the items in a plastic bag. Even when I am carrying my rockhound bag, which is a Fred Perry airline bag, the stores in New York City automatically put your can of soda, or packet of peanuts even into a plastic bag! So now when I walk up to a counter, the first words I speak are “No bag please.” I have recently found myself saying, when asked “Do you want a bag?,” “No thank you. That would be such a waste.”
Now Joe and I have each, respectively been to Vietnam, but when I was there, a Vietnamese tour guide said to me that the plastic bag was the white man’s curse on his country. I saw that in Vietnam as well. We were on tours out in the Vietnamese forests, walking for miles, and then we would walk past a plastic bag, the same type of plastic bag passed out with every transaction in New York City.
The plastic bag is everyone’s curse on the environment here in America as well. New York City streets are littered with them, the trash cans are disproportionately filled with them, and the landfills will continue to grow in area with plastic bags.
American Geode is bothered by the amount of plastic bags that litter our forests and our cities. We hope that all readers will share this essay, follow our example to #banthebag, and refuse a plastic bag during your next shopping excursion, and treat every excursion like a rockhounding excursion, and carry your own bag!
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