I’m sorry that I haven’t written for a couple of weeks. This last week I’ve been laid up with a kidney stone and haven’t felt up to sitting at this computer until today. If you’ve ever had one, you know why – the pain is tremendous. To keep from writhing on the floor in [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Finally Home-Part 6
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged book cliffs, colorado mines, cripple creek, gold mining, kidney stone, leadville, silver mining, winfield scott stratton on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Across America, Part 5
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged brine, dodge city, drake oil well, halite, hutchinson kansas, kansas oil museum, kansas underground salt mine tour, missouri lead mine, salt, salt mine, wind farm, wind turbine on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post describes the sixth day of my journey between Philadelphia and my home in Orem, Utah. I had been in Philadalphia for three months conducting a research fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) under a generous grant from the American Section of the Société de Chimie Industrielle, and my project was [...]
Returning Home, Part 4
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged bennett springs state park, butler county kansas, el dorado kansas, kansas oil museum, oil derrick, oil jack, oil refinery, oil well, petroleum on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After leaving the Missouri Mines State Historic Site on Thursday, Aug. 3, I headed west on MO-8 through rolling hills, trees, and meadows until I picked up I-44 heading southwest. After staying on it for about 60 miles, I exited and headed north, then west, to Bennett Springs State Park and camped for the [...]
Homeward Bound, Part 3
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged bonne terre, galena, lead mining, lead sulfide, missouri lead mine, missouri mines state historic site, old lead belt, st. joseph lead company, viburnum trend on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The third section of my journey home to Utah from Philadelphia revolved around the lead mines of Missouri. On Thursday morning, Aug. 3, I was at St. Francois State Park near Bonne Terre, Missouri in the Old Lead Belt, and I toured the Bonne Terre Lead Mine as well as the Missouri Mines [...]
On My Way Home, Part 2
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged chemical demonstrations, chemical elements, collecting the elements, depauw university, gray matters, mathematica, max whitby, missouri lead belt, percy julian, periodic table, popular science, st francois state park, theo gray, wolfram research on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I mentioned yesterday, my journey back to Utah from my fellowship in Philadelphia was eventful and too much to write about in a single blog post, so this is about the second phase of my journey. This part mostly revolved around the Periodic Table of the Elements, as I stopped at DePauw [...]
Homeward Journey, Part 1
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged civil war, drake oil well, gettysburg, gettysburg address, little round top, oil city, oil derrick, oil refinery, oil well, petroleum, pithole, punxsutawney, titusville on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am now safely back in Utah after seven days on the road from Philadelphia. I planned the journey to visit as many sites related to The Elements Unearthed project as possible, and to also take as many back roads as I could (you can’t see much of the real America if you’re driving [...]
