07/18/18 — Stones and Bones

View Archive

Stones and Bones

By News-Argus Staff
Published in News on July 18, 2018 5:50 AM

Full Size

News-Argus/CASEY MOZINGO

Mitchell Hardy, 9, finds a small tooth in the dirt dropped by one of the other children.

Full Size

News-Argus/CASEY MOZINGO

Jonathan Fain, above, holds up fossilized jaw bones during his Stones and Bones lecture at Steele Memorial Library. Mitchell Hardy, 9, left, finds a small tooth in the dirt dropped by one of the other children.

Full Size

News-Argus/CASEY MOZINGO

Cousins Kaleigh Garcia, 11, and Omar Soler, 10, dig through a cup of dirt from Aurora, after the Stones and Bones lecture on July 12 at Steele Memorial Library in Mount Olive. Many of the kids attending the program found a variety of small shark teeth.

Jonathan Fain presented a "Stones and Bones" program for children Thursday at Steele Memorial Library. Fain, who has been interested in fossils since he was 8, showed the children a variety of fossils and stones from his collection, all while providing a geological history of North Carolina. Children were able to participate in a "fossil dig" to see what it's like to be an archaeologist.