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From: MeteorHntr_at_aol.com <MeteorHntr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:42:00 2004
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Hello Steven,

Years ago, (maybe 7??) I read that story and a few months later happened to
be up in the North, so I scheduled a trip to the cemetery you mentioned. My
mind is a little fuzzy on the details, but I remember that it was very cold
and snowy. I do remember asking myself on the out of the way trip I was
taking, that if the rock really was a genuine meteorite, who would have legal
title to it? So when I got to the cemetery and I located the tombstone and
it turned out not to be a meteorite, but just any ordinary big bolder, I was
actually kind of relieved.

Hey, but it made a cute story for a children's book. Nice artwork as I
remember.

Steve Arnold
www.meteoritebroker.com

In a message dated 1/13/01 2:40:33 PM Central Standard Time,
SSachs9056_at_aol.com writes:

> Hi list,
> Hope all is well with everyone. Here is a mystery that has baffled me for
> some time. An author claims that a cemetary headstone for her grandmother
> is
> from a meteorite.
>
> To begin with....Some years ago I bought a children's story book by author
> Patricia Polacco, entitled METEOR! It's about an alleged meteor which
> fell
> on her grandmother's farm near Union City Michigan many years ago and the
> town reception celebrating it's arival. Cute story. I personally was born
> and
> raised in Kalamazoo Michigan, some 40 miles away. In the book the author
> describes how the meteorite which fell had been studied by scientists from
> University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Battle Creek
> College.
> But looking further into this, I could not find any listing in any calalog
> about this meteorite or event. The children's story ends with the meteorite
> being used as a tombstone marker for the author's grandmother. All of the
> landmarks and towns the author uses, is familiar to me being a former
> Michigander.
>
> What makes this even more interesting is when I looked up the author's name
> on the internet and she now lives at her grandmother's home and has called
> it
> METEOR RIDGE FARM. With the following address, anyone on the internet can
> look at this headstone: http://www.patriciapolacco.com/htour.html There
> you'll see the author kneeling next to the headstone. Looks a bit like a
> pallasite from a distance.
>
> Does anyone on this list know more about this??? I still have relatives
> near
> Kalamazoo, but only go once a year for a day, and have not had a chance to
> go
> to the actual cemetary (it does exist) and look at the tombstone first
> hand.
>
> Would appreciate imput from any list member who knows more about this
> mystery.
>
> Thanks all
>
> Steven L. Sachs
>
>

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<HTML>Hello Steven,
 
 Years ago, (maybe 7??) I read that story and a few months later happened to
 be up in the North, so I scheduled a trip to the cemetery you mentioned.  My
 mind is a little fuzzy on the details, but I remember that it was very cold
 and snowy.  I do remember asking myself on the out of the way trip I was
 taking, that if the rock really was a genuine meteorite, who would have legal
 title to it?  So when I got to the cemetery and I located the tombstone and
 it turned out not to be a meteorite, but just any ordinary big bolder, I was
 actually kind of relieved.
 
 Hey, but it made a cute story for a children's book.  Nice artwork as I
 remember.
 
 Steve Arnold
 www.meteoritebroker.com
 
 
 In a message dated 1/13/01 2:40:33 PM Central Standard Time,
 SSachs9056_at_aol.com writes:
 
 
 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hi list,
 Hope all is well with everyone. Here is a mystery that has baffled me for
 some time. An author claims that a cemetary headstone for her grandmother
 is
 from a meteorite.
 
 To begin with....Some years ago I bought a children's story book by author
 Patricia Polacco,  entitled METEOR!  It's about an alleged meteor which
 fell
 on her grandmother's farm near Union City Michigan many years ago and the
 town reception celebrating it's arival. Cute story. I personally was born
 and
 raised in Kalamazoo Michigan, some 40 miles away. In the book the author
 describes how the meteorite which fell had been studied by scientists from
 University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Battle Creek
 College.
 But looking further into this, I could not find any listing in any calalog
 about this meteorite or event. The children's story ends with the meteorite
 being used as a tombstone marker for the author's grandmother. All of the
 landmarks and towns the author uses, is familiar to me being a former
 Michigander.
 
 What makes this even more interesting is when I looked up the author's name
 on the internet and she now lives at her grandmother's home and has called
 it
 METEOR RIDGE FARM. With the following address, anyone on the internet can
 look at this headstone: http://www.patriciapolacco.com/htour.html  There
 you'll see the author kneeling next to the headstone. Looks a bit like a
 pallasite from a distance.
 
 Does anyone on this list know more about this??? I still have relatives
 near
 Kalamazoo, but only go once a year for a day, and have not had a chance to
 go
 to the actual cemetary (it does exist) and look at the tombstone first
 hand.
 
 Would appreciate imput from any list member who knows more about this
 mystery.
 
 Thanks all
 
 Steven L. Sachs
 
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