[Rockhounds] Franklin Mineral show report

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Thanks JR! Great Trip report. Wish I could have joined you.

Kreigh


J. R. Hodel wrote:
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> Hi all:
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> Having missed the whole summer of field collecting (due to major new construction on the farm and new projects at work) I thought I would compensate with a small vacation trip with a brief stop at the Franklin NJ Elementary School.
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> I had never been there, or (that I recall) heard much about what the show was like, so we also visited Philidelphia (Independence Hall, the Philadepphia Museum of Art!) and stayed at an old home converted to a small hotel, the Morris House Hotel.
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> The Franklin Show is in rural New Jersey...really!  Rolling hills covered with eastern hardwoods, rivers, ponds, wood ducks calling, really pretty.  The small towns on the way to Franklin are very like small towns in other eastern mining districts I have visited, from North Carolina to Maine.
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> JR in WV