This listing contains photos of the public exhibits. The public exhibits showcased the finest in minerals in New York and New Jersey, and was probably the largest public display of New York/New Jersey minerals ever assembled. Many people contributed towards this effort, and their involvement is much appreciated. Justin and Brandy Zzyzx get a special kudos for organizing such a challenging operation and ensuring everything went smoothly and professionally. The fossil displays were curated by fossil specialist Yinan Wang, who also did a nice job of putting these together.
The individual exhibitors included:
- Hershel Friedman: Minerals of the NYC Suburbs
- Dave Kords: Minerals of NY State
- The Staten Island Museum: Minerals of NY State and NYC
- Rutgers Geology Museum: Minerals of NJ
- Juan Gonzalez: Minerals of NJ
- Tom Kapelewski & Sons: Herkimer Diamonds from Middleville, NY
- Bodhivastu Foundation Collection: Herkimer Diamonds
- Alan Benson: Minerals from the NJ Trap Rocks
- Steve Kuitems, Jim Chenard, & Fred Parker: Minerals from the Tilly Foster Mine, NY
- Howard Heitner: Minerals from the Northeast USA
- Joseph Polityka: Minerals of NJ
- Jason Baskin: Minerals of the NJ Traprocks
- Terry Szenics: Minerals of the Northeast USA
- Bradley D. Plotkin: Bergen Hill, NJ Prehnites, Millington, & NJ Copper Minerals
- Michael Essig: Ellenville Quartz
- Jeff Fast: Field collected minerals from the Northeast USA
- Glenn Rhein & Family: Minerals from the Rhein Property, Amity, NY
- Franklin Mineral Musum: Minerals from Franklin and Sterling Hilll, NJ
- Fossil Cases organized by Yinan Wang
I had a very challenging experience photographing the exhibits. These display cases were very large, with multiple shelves in each display. This increased the depth scope, and under low lighting was difficult to get the entire spectrum clearly, even with the aid of a tripod. The displays also had transparent shelves and backgrounds, which further challenged my photography skills. I am not so happy about the quality of these photos, but they are still better than showing nothing, and they indeed still give a feeling towards the displays at the show and the show in general.
Note: All these photos can be clicked for an enlarged pop-up.
Crowds observing the display cases.
(No, I don't have an explanation as to why the woman has her foot on the man.)
The Display Case Format. There was a long row of cases in this format, with an aisle in between for people to walk through.
Shelf in the Staten Island Museum Display.
These are minerals from Southern New York State.
Another Shelf in the Staten Island Museum Display.
These are minerals from New York City.
Display Case from Dave Kords, American Hobby Shop.
Dave has an odd assortment of different NY mineral from all over the state.
Another shelf from the display case of Dave Kords
And another from Dave Kords
And One Last Shelf from Dave Kords, with a really strange stalactite growth on the left
