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Where on Earth Newsletter
May/June

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Dear Good Friends & Customers,

A beautiful and terrible spring it has been, depending on where you are. Our hearts go out to those in areas of severe weather, and to the Gulf coast affected by the oil spill.

Below is a photo of one of the Bear Statues we found in Cherokee, North Carolina, called the Patriotic Bear.

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AMERICA!

The entire Bear Statue tour? See the Latest Travels info below!

WHAT'S NEW?

AURORA CRYSTALS - Iridescent dark (see photo), and Iridescent opal coated quartz crystals, both colors just dynamite gifts to yourself or others!

CARVED CRITTERS-BALI - Wolf, Owl and More on Animal Carvings-Other page, Bats in Tagua Nut (TNE-154 series), and Frog, Turtle, Bear and Skulls pendants on Pendants Page 1 .

GEM ROSE PENDANTS - Multiple gems including Rose Quartz, Blue sodalite, Tigereye, Jasper and much more!

Cameo & Animal HAIR PINs AND Brass BARRETTES - Greatly expanded choices of both, all on Cameos page 7.

Rare BLUE FLUORITE from New Mexico - Yes, we found a few more to share, though Heidi would prefer to keep them ALL (#R-625-20 series).

Iridescent PYRITE SUNS - from a coal mine in Sparta, Illinois. The iridescence is caused by exposure to chlorine, not a common occurrence (#R543-20 series).

100 POUNDS OF DINOSAUR POOP - No exaggeration. Lots more to choose from, all colors & sizes.

As promised in our last newsletter, what we called the "WEIRD & DEAD STUFF SANTA SLED" items that arrived are now on FOSSILS page 2 :

--5 Mammoth ivory tusk tips

--Mammoth tooth slices

--Mammoth bones
--Baby mammoth teeth

Photos of the Stillborn deer taxidermy and the Albino Box Turtle (#W-5) are now on the Weirdest pages to view.

100 more CAMEOS (Cameos pages 1-3), 100 more BRASS ANIMAL BROOCHES (Brooches pages 1-2)

78 more Tagua Nut Animals including Turtles, Hanging Cockatoos, manatees, manta rays, hanging Owls, Eagles, Alligators, Hammerhead sharks, Swans, Jellyfish, Wolf and much more.

And if that's not enough, a Herd of over 700 GEM ANIMALS (Pages 3-8) has stampeded in recently. New animals include Hummingbird, Grasshopper, Seahorse, Chinese Dragons, Griffins, Gargoyles, Angels, Angel cats, Sphinx cats, Caterpillar, new styles of Dolphins large & small. New 1" animals include Penguin & Whale (page 3).

FOSSIL FAIR, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY MAY 29TH

THIS SATURDAY (May 29th), Aurora, North Carolina. If you're anywhere NEAR the East Coast of North Carolina, plan to take the family to this Fossil fair through the center of this small town for plenty of FREE THRILLS. Wear old clothes and prepare to get dirty, digging for your own fossils, and keeping what you find! Experts on hand to ID your finds. Many other fossil dealers bring their cool fossils for you to see & buy, the free Aurora Museum to view (like this huge Great White Shark head just inside the door!), and fossil collectors bringing plenty of newfound fossils to share from their collections. Even a Fossil Auction and Memorial Day Parade! Educational and fun, how can you go wrong? More info on Fossils page 9 of past festival photos, current info and links to the Aurora Museum site.

LATEST TRAVELS Added

A Virtual Tour of the Shark tooth and Fossil collection of the renowned Fossil guide and collector, George Powell (North Carolina) has been posted, on Fossils Page 16 . Thanks again, George, for the honor of documenting your finds.

The BEAR STATUES all around Cherokee, NC are now posted on Latest Travels page 1, for May of '09 (near the bottom of the page). An example is the Patriotic Bear at the top of this Newsletter!

Also the FIREWORKS in Boston on the Charles River and other cool sights in Massachusetts are now posted, for July of '09, on the same page. (We have posted later travels, so we are now filling in the blanks on the other equally interesting places we have been.)

In closing, we hope you have a full summer with many gatherings of family and friends.

We here at Where on Earth never know what's next. This morning we had a visit from a 3 year old black bear to our yard from the conservation forest adjoining our property:

And a visit from a beautiful red-gray fox:

Sincerely,

Glenn and Heidi Reed
Where on Earth?