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Fossil Festival
The fossil festival is an
annual event held throughout Memorial Day weekend. The
event features extensive fossil displays, guest
lecturers, an artifact auction, a shark tooth raffle,
parade, street dance, and tours of the phosphate mine.
This year's 16th
Annual Aurora Fossil Festival Festival, will be held May 25-27,
2012.
The Aurora Community
Center will be the main arena for featured fossils, minerals
and shell displays. Among those who will be participating are the
North Carolina Fossil Club, American Fossil
Federation, Catawba Valley Gem and Mineral Society, The
Schiele Museum, Aurora Fossil Club and North
Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences as well as
displays by various individuals.
Scientists and volunteers
from the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
will be available to assist the public
with fossil identification and educational publications.
The Education Tent
will feature displays by the National Aquarium of
Washington, DC, North Carolina Aquarium at Pine
Knoll Shores, Calvert Marine Museum, the Outer
Banks Wildlife Refuge and others.
The Annual Fossil
Auction
The opening ceremony will be held at 6pm on Friday, May 25th.
The Annual Fossil
Auction
The 5k Run, hosted by Run the East, is at 8:30am on Saturday, May 26th. A Veteran's Breakfast will be held at 9am and is open to all Veterans. Lectures will be held beginning at 9am and lasting until 3pm, the guest lecturers are still to be determined. The Parade is at 11am and the Lawn Mower Pull is at 12pm. Also at 12pm, is the Veterans Presentation, directly after the parade. Beginning at 11am, PCS will be offering tours of the mine. The PCS Tours will run until 4pm on Saturday, May 26th. There will be Live Music from 1pm to 6pm. The Fossil Museum Auction will run from 3pm to 7pm. The last event of the day is the Street Dance from 7pm until 11pm.
The Annual Fossil
Auction
Throughout Saturday, there will be all day activities including: Foods and Crafts, Live Stage Entertainment, Carnival, Children's Rides, Helicopter Rides, Car Show, Smithsonian Institution, Fossil Finds at Various Sites in Aurora, Mysterious Fossil Fins (in reject piles), Lawn Mower Pulls, Water Balloon Toss at Celebrities, Schiele Museum, Ronald McDonald, and a Shark Coloring Contest.
The Annual Fossil
Auction
Sunday, May 27th will consist of a Church Service and an All Day Gospel Sing
As part of our annual
Fossil Festival activities, the museum offers a large
Carcharocles megalodon tooth for raffle each year.
This year's tooth was from a blackwater river in South
Carolina.
Museum Lectures
Those interested in
learning more about fossils and local NC geology enjoyed
the following lectures.
Billy Palmer Sr.--"Protocetid
whales of South Carolina's Middle Eocene"
Vance
McCollum--"Pleistocene fossils from the Camelot site,
Giant Cement SC."
Dr. Bretton Kent--"The Extinct Lamnoid
Shark Parotodus benedeni" |
