Agate Show 2008
**Updates**
Registration for the Special Program on July 10th is now closed. Please join us for the rest of the Wonderful World of Agates on July 11-13.- posted on 7/2/2008
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**Updates**
Updated Speakers Schedule, Show Schedule and New Area Map. - posted on 6/17/2008
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Join us in honoring author June Culp Zeitner, living legend of the agate world and recipient of our lifetime achievement award. - posted on 5/29/2008
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The Wonderful World of Agates celebrates the world’s most beautiful and varied gemstone. This international event will be held July 10-13, 2008, at the University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley in Menasha, Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Weis Earth Science Museum, Wisconsin’s official mineralogical museum, the four-day celebration will feature entertaining and educational presentations, displays of some of the finest agate specimens in the world, special activities for families, a silent agate auction, and an international array of dealers selling agate, jasper, petrified wood, and thunderegg specimens, agate fossils and geodes, and agate-related jewelry and art. An area will be reserved for agate books and signings by authors, with some new titles expected to be unveiled at the time of the show. Stanford University historian and agate expert, Dr. Robert Proctor, will present a keynote address on Saturday, July 12, following the banquet.
Registration to the event is $75 per person, which includes all programs, the silent auction and an early-bird visit to vendors. The banquet is an additional $18.00. All registrants may attend Dr. Proctor’s keynote address, whether or not they attend the banquet.
Due to space restrictions, attendance at the day-long educational seminar and the banquet will be limited, so participants are encouraged to register early.
There are no more banquet tickets available.
The displays and vendors will be open to the general public on Friday-Sunday for a nominal fee.
The organizers of The Wonderful World of Agates envision an event that will bring together agate aficionados and amateurs alike, to celebrate and explore the beauty, science, history and mystique of these remarkable gemstones.
The Wonderful World of Agates is the brainchild of Weis Museum Educator Gary Richards, who recognized that Wisconsin, Minnesota and Upper Michigan seem to have an inordinate number of internationally-recognized agateers.” For example, Roger Clark from Appleton, Wisconsin, is the author of Fairburn Agate, Gem of South Dakota; Eugene Mueller, owner of The Gem Shop in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, mines agates and jasper at his claims in Mexico and Oregon, and Bob Barron, a scientist at Michigan Technological University’s Seaman Mineralogical Museum, extracts agate specimens from bedrock 40 feet beneath the waters of icy Lake Superior.
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