On a beautiful fall day in eastern North Carolina, members of the East Coast Fossil club were treated to a special event prior to a scheduled hunt of Greens Mills Run park. The Club members were able to view noted amateur paleontologist George Powell’s fantastic fossil collection collected from various spots along the coast from Virginia to South Carolina.
The one of a kind relics were truly an awesome collection of one man’s passion for the fossil collecting hobby. His collection as evident in the pictures truly rivals if not
surpasses many large museum quality displays. George was such a great host welcoming us to his private collection room and then spending a few hours explaining different nuances of the hobby and answering many questions from club members.
Everyone learned much about our hobby from the visit, and the one on one time with George was great as we did not have the hills of Aurora tempting us into short conversation.
George’s famous 114 Parotodus-benedeni associated dentition was only one of the highlights of the collection, all of the members were impressed with the display of Meg’s in all their glory with the red felt and highlighting! (Glenn’s got to do something about his Megs kept in the tool box!)
My question to George was “What’s going to happen to your collection in the future…? Are you going to donate it to a museaum?” “Nope, I told the wife and daughter to sell the whole thing and enjoy the money from it!” was the reply. And that my friends is probably what will happen to ours too!
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