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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 16:50 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Robert Snyder, Stonetrust. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 16:53 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Trevor Kitto gave me a letter opener from Australia, with a kangaroo on the handle, but I rather like the bag it came in! |
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A birthday gift for both Jim and me from Irv Brown. It is a gorgeous aragonite from Terlingua, Texas. NOT a gypsum. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 17:44 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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We went back to our hotel, handed the Aragonite to Joe Budd, since he was at the hotel, and asked him to photo it for us.
Then we got dressed to head over to Bill and Carol Smith's home for a viewing of their minerals and a great home cooked meal.
( How nice to be on the receiving end of this for a change! )
Will post pictures of the get together later.
So...Moving on to Sunday.
SUNDAY Sept 20, 2009
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 18:05 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Sunday, the show will be closing at five and we are all over trying to look at minerals, pick up minerals we purchased, pick up mineral we had photographed, continue paying our respects and sharing stories with everyone.
What a day!
We went and had breakfast at the Cracker Barrel with Irv Brown, we don't get to visit quietly at the show so thought a restaurant would give us a chance to catch up.
It is amazing how many people we have gotten to know in the almost five years we have been collecting.
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Denver on the last morning before heading home later. |
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The drive between the Main show and the Holiday Inn...about 3/4 of a mile? Really close by. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 18:13 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Jared and Jim looking at some nice minerals. Jared is with Altamont minerals. |
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Dylan popped in to say hello! |
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Jared of Altamont minerals. We discovered him last year and found his minerals to be good, affordable and the friendly service worth coming back to deal with again. We picked up some really nice pieces from him again. |
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Our friend ,Fran Allegra, he writes legal articles in the Mineralogical Record, perhaps you have read them? |
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Laura, she is quite the worker and is invaluable to Marty and Rose Zinn. We had just seen her at Springfield. |
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Holiday Inn..the day everyone packs up....really quiet up on the second floor. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 18:19 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Marty Zinn getting things ready to close down. |
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Rose Zinn...I got her to stand still for this long..she is rockin' and rollin'. |
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Laurent Thomas, Madagascar expert. |
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Ian Nicklen, Royal Ontario Museum. |
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Chris Hughes with his signature hat. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 18:23 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Rob from Collector's Edge. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 18:24 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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AMNH exhibit.
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 22, 2009 18:33 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Scott Werschky and Me. Miner's Lunchbox |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 23, 2009 15:37 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Ralph Clark and his great display of thumbnail mineral specimens. |
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Ralph Clark and Ian Bruce. Ralph is an incredible thumb nail collector and his pieces are superb! |
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Terrence, he is the exhibits coordinator for the DGMS |
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Roy Jones, bless his heart..I took this when he blinked! |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 23, 2009 15:42 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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There were crowds a'plenty on Sunday. |
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Me being silly with Dave Wilber |
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Left to Right. Dave Wilber, Ralph Clark, Jim Walker, Jim Spann and Mary Fong Walker. Having fun! |
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Jim Walker is going to be in trouble!!! Mary has yet to see his rabbit ears expression..... |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 23, 2009 15:47 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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This is our "big beastie" fluorite, Pakistan. MAD case. |
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B E A U T I F U L !!! MAD favourite case |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 24, 2009 07:23 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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...I love this case that some of our fellow MAD members put in each year.
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 24, 2009 10:55 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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...Smithsonian exhibit.
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A woman that I met through friends on Facebook. She walked up to me and asked if I was Gail Spann and we had a good time meeting in person after writing back and forth on Facebook. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 24, 2009 11:01 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Jim Spann, Rock Currier and Jim Hall. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 24, 2009 11:05 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Scott Rudolph's copper "rabbit". I remember this from Irv's collection. What a great piece. |
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Gail
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Posted: Sep 24, 2009 11:10 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Nice to see this youngster collecting. |
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Tobi
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Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:31 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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How cute! Good to see that there are still young children who are interested in nature an who are fascinated by the beauty of minerals and the thrill and fun of collecting! I started at the age of 8 oder 9 and today, only one generation later, the kids nearly never have interests like that. They rather collect ringtones than minerals ... :-/ But the more we have to support children who join this passion. So it's really wonderful to see such a little one showing so much enthusiasm! Great!
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Sep 24, 2009 15:30 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Gail,
The woman of the post -> https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=7285#7285 , is not only: "A woman that I met through friends on Facebook..." but is nothing more and nothing less than the graceful Ludmila Cheshko which with her partner Michael B. Leybov, edit the fine Russian magazine Mineral Observer--Mineralogical Almanac -> https://www.lithographie.org/bookshop/no_c_mineral_observer.htm
Both are wonderful people, but her English language is just OK, that's why probably you don't noticed who she is. So, the honor of the meeting were mutual!..;-)
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Ludmila Cheshko editor of the great Russian magazine Mineral Observer, with Gail Spann. |
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Joan Kureczka
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Posted: Sep 24, 2009 16:06 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's photofest of the Denver 2009 show. |
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Jordi -- you beat me to it! Nice to see Ludmilla, who is a good long-time friend of ours, as is Michael. Glad to see she made Denver again... as we, unfortunately, did not. The publication they put out is excellent.
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