Activities Schedule

Barbara Hathaway – Dowsing 101

Barabara is a Reiki III Master Teacher, Certified Herbalist and Karuna Master.  She is the owner of Hathaway’s Elemental Light since 2000.  She teaches Metaphysical values of minerals and their connection to humanity’s well being.  She is going to show us How To use a variety of Gems and Minerals for Pendulums to answer questions.

Dana Schwartz - Elegant Macrame Jewelry - cost $15 (includes materials)

Dana will teach you to incorporate beads and natural fibers into an elegant (or funky) necklace using macrame and beading materials.
You will have a choice of fibers and colors, and you will be using glass beads handcrafted by glass artisan, Mark Schwartz.  Finish with metal findings or make a metal free necklace using a toggle button.

12:00 pm

Len Sharp -  The Weird and Strange, the Small and the Supersized

Len is a  Presidential  Awardee in Science Teaching along with many other distinguished honors.  During the Mesozoic Era  (aka The Age of Dinosaurs), circa 251-65 million years ago, Earth was dominated by some of the longest, largest, and strangest creatures that have ever roamed our planet.  What was the first dinosaur discovered and described by scientists?  When did the first dinosaur appear on Earth?  Are there any ancestors of dinosaurs alive today?

Cheryl Brown - Jewelry Making 101: An Introduction - cost $20 (including materials)

Make a pair of earrings and a matching bracelet using simple stringing methods. Choose from a few different color combinations and learn from Cheryl how to design and fabricate your very own jewelry!

Rob Ross – The Hyde Park Mastodon

PRI paleontologist Rob Ross will make a presentation about the Hyde Park mastodon, one of the best preserved mastodon skeletons ever found, which is now on display at PRI's Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY. The skeleton was excavated in 2000 by PRI staff and volunteers, including the Syracuse Club's Jay Tinker, from a family's backyard in Hyde Park, NY (near Poughkeepsie). A decade of research has gone into understanding the mastodon and its environment; the project lives on in part through the the Mastodon Matrix Project, through which thousands of students in classrooms around the country have found small fossils from sediment collected around the skeleton in order to inventory the flora and fauna from the excavation site.

Rick Moore - Minerals, Fossils and the Internet

Rick, a  geologist, will give an introduction to using the internet to enhance the mineral and fossil collecting experience for both adults and children.  Topics to be covered include important mineral and fossil data sites, discovering collecting localities, online silver picking, getting help from discussion groups, clip art for your projects, rock collecting supplies and more.

Johanna Wall - Make A RIng - cost $28 (including material)

How to make a ring with a sparkly Swarovski Rivoli crystal encircled by small crystals and seed beads. Some experience with right angle weave and peyote would be helpful but not necesary.

Georgia Cunningham – How Psychic Disciplines Use Gems & Minerals

Georgia is the owner and publisher of the Metaphysical Times Publishing Company.  She is also a co-sponsor of the Metaphysical Times Fair held at the same time as our show. Georgia is a local gal, a Palm Reader, and also teaches people how to reinvent their lives.  All metaphysical areas use gems in their work.  Some of those areas are Palm Reading, Astrology, Stone Reading, Physic Mediums, Tarot Readers.   Almost all readers use them either directly or indirectly in their readings.

The MOST Fossil and Bones Workshop for Kids

The Museum of Science and Technology will offer a  free 45 minute workshop for 25 children ages 8 to 12.  These students have the opportunity to touch and examine real fossils and bones.  Students can look and handle different skulls to determine details about how the animals may have lived and died. Fossils of prehistoric life will also be available for examination and discussion on what fossils are and how they are formed.  The reason why animals have skeletons will also be explored as the class makes dinosaur models with play dough.

Marcia Wisehoon - Pendant : Wire Sculpted Nugget - cost $20 (including materials)

Create a beautiful sterling silver wired pendant with Marcia. You will be amazed at the results of wiring your own beautiful stone or crystal. And learn from an expert how to manage and manipulate wire, the newest trend in beading.

Len Sharp – Dinosaurian Armageddon

Len, Presidential Awardee in Science Teaching among many other honors, will discuss after 186 million years of existence – what caused the dinosaurs to become extinct in such a short period of time. The world suddenly becomes a reign of terror for all life forms as a massively large object comes falling out of the sky.  Within moments of impact, in an area now know as the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, mountainous tsunamis, tumultuous earthquakes, blazing firestorms, high-velocity shockwaves and massive amounts of debris blasted upward into Earth’s atmosphere beginning to alter Earth’s landscape, temperature, evolution and existence of life for the future.

Bead Society of CNY - Bead Weaving Twins and Tilas - cost $25 (including materials)

Tim Hart - Rockin’ Around New York and Beyond

Tim , a 5^th grade teacher at Central Square, will lead a discussion on his rock hunting adventures. He will discuss locations and show off some of the gem, mineral and fossil specimens one can expect to find in central New York and beyond.