By Charla Wurm-Adams
cwurm@wbcowqel.com
Saturday’s visitors to the Lowe-Volk Park Nature Center weren’t caught between a rock and a hard place; they were caught between fossils and minerals.
The Crawford Park District held its annual Rock-n-Fossil Day at the Nature Center and used the opportunity to show off displays of trilobites, fossils, minerals and even jewelry made from minerals.
Retired Bucyrus teacher Tom Kottyan discussed trilobites.
“Trilobites were one of the most successful species on the entire history of the earth. They existed 350 million years and there was literally thousands and thousands and thousands of different species of trilobite,” Kottyan said. “Ohio is very lucky to have a hundred and fifty different species of trilobites which if very rare for most states that people can actually go out and collect a lot of the different species.”
Crawford County Treasurer Gary Cole, also a rock hound, demonstrated how to polish rocks. Several fossils were given away as door prizes to the event.
The Richland Lithic and Lapidary Society provided several of the displays.