The Helena Mineral Society is holding its annual Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show this weekend at the Civic Center. I will definitely stop in and poke around a little.
I attended my first rock show
at the Civic Center just shy of sixty years ago. When I was seven or eight, my uncle Stack
took me to the show.
The show dazzled me. I saw heaps of polished stones, cut agates
and geodes, gold, fossilized fish, crystals, precious gems, and more.
My uncle bought me a collection
of various minerals at that first show. In
the years since, I have attended at least twenty of the rock shows.
Today, if you came to visit me,
you would discover rocks on display throughout my house. I have two large display cases filled with
specimens in my den. I have rocks in my
kitchen, living room, bedrooms, and master bath. And you will find one disk-shaped rock on the
ledge of my utility room sink. I call
that specimen my “working rock.”
I use the working rock whenever I grill salmon. I like to grill my salmon on a cedar plank. Before doing so, I use the rock to hold the plank under the water while I soak it the sink for an hour or two before grilling.
The Working Rock
—Mitchell Hegman
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