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Show Monday March 30, 2009 New this week Bf? Diana Krall: Quiet Nights, March 31 Keith Urban: Defying Gravity, March 31 Amazon.com Leonard Cohen: Live in London, March 31 Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!, March 31 Amazon.com Marley And Me, March 31 Amazon.com Seven Pounds, March 31 Amazon.com Slumdog Millionaire, March 31 Amazon.com Yes Man, March 31 Loraine Gholdston/UVU Review Amazon.com Mr. Bones, the not-quite life-size dinosaur puppet, appeared at the Timpanogos Rock and Gem Show on March 20. Annual gem show hits Spanish Fork i^LORAINE GHOLDSTON Life writer Each year, vendors of minerals and gems from around the world, come to Spanish Fork with specimens ranging from the common and cheap to the rare and precious. The Timpanogos Gem and Mineral Society has hosted the show for the past 50 years, hoping lo enrich the minds of those interested in mineralogy, paleantology, and geology - especially children. Inside the cave-like atmosphere. activities from door prize drawings to gold panning competed with dazzling displays of thousands of beautiful gem specimens for attention. Gem cutters and experts were on-site solely for the purpose of answering questions at the "touch table" where people were invited to inspect the fossil and mineral specimens at their leisure. Kids were given small examples of minerals to take home. Prices on stones and gems ranged from twenty five cents to thousands of dollars. Miners and collectors shared the space, and hocked Adventureland, April 3 their finds and equipment for rock hounds. Displays lined the walls, filled with treasure, stories, and historyWandering the aisles was a guy in a wearable dinosaur skeleton, who would switch between the costume and holding a rather large dinosaur puppet. The older kids were amused, some of the younger ones were frightened, but there was plenty to distract them. A family could spend hours at the show without getting bored. The Annual Gem and Mineral Show occurs ever>' year in mid- March. Fast And Furious, April 3 Yahoo.com Gigantic, April 3 Paris 36, April 3 Photos by Loraine Gholdston/UVU Review The Timpanogos Rock and Gem Show had many different types of stones on display, fossils to precious stones. Most of the displayed rocks were up for sale, and many had been crafted into useful items, like the bookends on the far right. Yahoo.com |