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Show Dinosaur Discovery Day focuses on quarry history The fourth annual Discovery Day Opf'n House at Dinosaur National Monument will take place this Saturday at the Quarry Visitor Center, seven miles north of Jensen. The open house is a community-oriented community-oriented celebration that calls attention to the original discovery of dinosaur fossils on Aug. 17, 1909, by Earl Douglass of the Carnegie Museum. "This year we are going to focus attention at-tention on the map of the Quarry made by Mr. Douglass in 1923," said Dinosaur Chief of Interpretation Denny Davies. The 15 foot-long map was found several years ago in the archives at the University Univer-sity of Utah and is an important key to work going on inside the Quarry today. Davies said that there will be activities ac-tivities going on all day, but that special Open House events will commence at 2 p.m. From 2 to 6 p.m., a colored-key ver sion of the 1923 map will be on view inside in-side the Quarry with the different kinds of fossils displayed in different colors. Rangers on duty will present talks that will help visitors understand the scope and significance of this world-famous world-famous quarry. During this four-hour period, visitors will also have the rare opportunity to go inside the laboratory to watch up close while paleontologists uncover fossil bones, see some of the priceless fossils taken from the cliff, and watch while tools are made at the forge. The day's activities will conclude at 8:30 p.m. at the Split Mountain Campground Cam-pground Amphitheater, with a special showing of a 1922 movie which documents the early work done at the Quarry site. There is no charge for any of the activities ac-tivities and the park staff is hoping for a large turnout. |