Boston Mineral Club

The Boston Mineral Club always looks forward to supporting the Harvard Museum of Natural History in presenting an "Earth Rocks" festival that emphasizes the importance of Earth Science. We consider this to be an important part of the educational efforts of the club. It also gives us a chance to interact with the next generation of mineral collectors as the festival is very much a family-oriented event.

In 2014 the Earth Rocks event was held earlier than in previous years on Saturday, 1 February. The photographs on this page illustrate some of the tables created and staffed by BMC members.

Barbara Martin is staffing the BMC membership table where we introduced visitors to the club, provided club brochures and membership forms and gave away mineral and fossil specimens to both children and adults.
 

Bill and Rita Schaare brought in a collection of hand tools to show visitors what club members use to collect mineral specimens on BMC fieldtrips.

George Adleman & John Campbell fascinated museum visitors of all ages with George's ever-popular display of fluorescent minerals. See the photo below for the colorful display under the UV lights.

Paul Young and Peter Cristofono were kept very busy helping visitors to identify rocks and minerals that they had brought in for inspection by these BMC experts. Don Ernst helped out at a number of the BMC tables throughout the day. They also gave away many interesting specimens to visitors.

Donna Dickerson shared her knowledge of gems and gemstones with visitors.

Ellen Young helped visitors visualize meteorite impact craters with this 3D display developed by BMC member Nancy Hicks.

The father and son team of Toby (standing to the left of his dad) and Charlie Flowers shared pictures and displayed specimens collected during 2013 BMC fieldtrips with museum visitors.

BMC member Cindi Herrick worked with museum volunteer, Mike Williams to demonstrate that rocks can be musical.

Move over MacGyver! Andy Siegel created this demonstration of using the semiconducting properties of pyrite or galena to create a working crystal radio.

PHOTOS FROM SIMILAR EVENTS IN PREVIOUS YEARS

              

   Jim Catterton shares his interest in fossil wood.                     Gemstone faceting demonstration