MEDIA CONTACT: Barb Krumm, Director of Marketing
and Public Relations (Ocean Lakes), please call (843) 828-4829 or (843) 457-0601
cell, or via email at
bkrumm@oceanlakes.com
WHEN: Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 9 AM until 3 PM.
WHERE: Ocean Lakes Family Campground's Recreation Building, 6001
South Kings Hwy., Myrtle Beach, SC 29575 (only 160 feet from the Atlantic
Ocean)
A great opportunity to speak with experts from the Smithsonian, collectors and to
learn about this educational hobby.
WHO WILL BE
THERE:
* Experts will be on hand from the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum
of Natural History for free identification of your fossils! Museum Specialists from
the Department of Paleobiology include Robert W. Purdy, Museum Specialist, Fossil
Fish; David J. Bohaska, Museum Specialist, Fossil Whales; Frederick V. Grady, Museum
Specialist, Pleistocene Mammals, and (tentatively schedule to attend): Matt
Carrano, Dinosaur Specialist and Mark Uhen, Whale Specialist from the Smithsonian
Institute's National Museum of Natural History.
* Many fossil collections will be on display by members of the Myrtle Beach
Fossil Club, and more. The fossil displays will include shark teeth,
whalebones, sand dollars, horse teeth and other fossils from this area. Collections
will also include fossils from the South Carolina Lowcountry area, North Carolina
and Florida.
*Shell collections will also be on display at Ocean Lakes Nature Center Discovery
Lab. Tour the lab with our Curator, Leonard Raker, to see more than 10,000
shells and fossils.
ACTIVITIES:
* Learn how to recover fossils from the field with Smithsonian experts at our mock
dig site on the beachfront at 11 AM and 2 PM.
* Visitors will have the opportunity to hunt for sharks' teeth in material
from the PCS Phosphate Mine and then create your own shark's tooth necklace!
TO DISPLAY: Collectors interested in displaying at this year's show
please contact Kris Ziegler or Barb Krumm at (843) 828-4833 or email: info@oceanlakes.com.
LODGING AVAILABLE: Call Ocean Lakes for reservations and to reserve a campsite by
dialing 1-800-722-1451, and no need for a hotel, rent on of our 300 rental houses,
dial 1-800-845-2229.