Scenes from the 2001 Spring mineral show

The weather was superb this year with two gorgeous, blue-sky, spring days. 

Activities ranged from the show's center -- the Littell Center & Hardyston School off Route 23 -- through to the Franklin Mineral Museum and Trotter Dump in Franklin, and the Sterling Hill Mining Museum and Dumps at Sterling Hill. It was a beautiful spring weekend.

A few snapshots are provided below..

	The scene inside the Littell Center (Armory) on Saturday morning.
	Dealers and customers outside the Littell Center (Armory): 'The Pond'.
	Pete Dunn and Steve Misiur enjoying a moment..
	The shuttle bus worked! Shuttle at work between the Littell Center (Armory) and the Hardyston School.
	John Cianciulli (center), with Carol Durham and unidentified friend manning the FOMS table at the Hardyston School.
	View of show floor in the Hardyston School. (NJ Zinc stock certificates at booth in foreground were priced nicely at $4 each.)
	Short customers invade the Franklin Mineral Museum.
	Collectors busy at work on the Trotter Dump during the special once-a-year dig organized by DVESS and Steve Phillips. See the Trotter 2001 page for more details.
	Earl Verbeek at the entrance to the Sterling Hill Mining Museum's GeoTech Center, which contains the new Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence.
	Collectors on the Mine Run Dump, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg NJ.
	Dick Bostwick (right) explaining Sterling Hill details to stereo-photographer Jeff Kogan.
	Herb Yeates, Tema Hecht, Dick Bostwick and Earl Verbeek during the show.
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