Bruce's Blog

21 May 2014

Tomorrow I leave for a fossil festival in Aurora NC. This should be fun.  I'll update my blog on my journey.

26 May 2014
This past weekend I attended the Aurora NC Fossil festival. About 10,000 people converged on this tiny town in eastern NC for things paleontological. The reason for this festival is because one of the richest fossil localities in the world is from the phosphate mines just NW of Aurora.  This Lee Creek Mine yields beautiful  teeth of the giant extinct shark Megalodon. I collected 20-million-year-old fossils from a mine on Friday, participated in a 3.1 K fun run on Saturday, gave a talk on Sat afternoon, and generally enjoyed the festivities. This included a visit to the local Aurora fossil museum, exhibitors displays, not to mention the parade and "Little Miss Fossil" contest. This was the epitome of a free-choice, informal learning environment.

 Rob, President of Aurora Fossil Club, showing his fossil teeth collected from Belgrade mine.

 Aurora Fossil Museum, mainstreet Aurora.

 Exhibiting personal fossil collection during festival.

 Meg reconstruction at entrance of exhibit.

Meg "float" at parade.