[meteorite-list] Wold Cottage 'meteorite homecoming'

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:23:54 -0400
Message-ID: <20100422182355.PE1TC.99361.imail_at_fed1rmwml40>

Martin and Dave,
This is a GREAT story. May be a bit overshadowed by the school kids in Wisconsin but equally as great.
You both deserve great recognition for this very fine act of kindness.
Dave , this does not really surprise me. You have always been a top Dawg in my mind and you always will be.
This is hall of fame stuff here. I nominate both of you for next years "Harvey Award" . Did you get that Geoff and steve?
Carl

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Carl or Debbie Esparza
Meteoritemax
---- martin goff <msgmeteorites at googlemail.com> wrote: 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just thought i would give the list a heads up on a recent event that
> happened over here in the UK concerning the Wold Cottage meteorite.
> The owners of the historic Wold Cottage are now proudly able to
> display a piece of the famous meteorite itself after many years of
> searching with no success. This story has taken quite a few months to
> unfold and started last summer when myself and my family stayed at the
> Wold Cottage currently owned by Derek and Katrina Gray. Although they
> have lots of historic photos and memorabilia i was astounded to
> discover that they didn't have a piece of the stone itself. I thought
> this was very sad indeed and said i would keep a look out for them and
> after a few months found a piece being offered for trade by Dave
> Gheesling. I approached Dave with Derek and Katrina's story and Dave
> was not only willing to part with the specimen but he offered to
> donate it to them for free! Now, i know that Dave is a very modest
> chap and doesnt want to make a song and dance about this but i think
> that the story needs sharing (Larry, i am writing the article at the
> moment!!) I am sure that everyone will agree that it was a very
> generous gesture with the end result being that a piece of this
> important and historic fall is now being displayed in its proper home!
> As i played the part of the middle man in all of this i thought that
> the least i could do was to arrange to get the specimen properly
> framed and present the framing to Derek and Katrina on Daves behalf. I
> did this last Friday and Derek and Katrina are absoutely delighted and
> over the moon to finally have a piece back home!
> 
> The story has atrracted quite a bit of press attention and i was
> thrust into quite a media circus when i attended last week (all good
> fun though and i quite enjoyed it all to be honest!) I was interviewed
> for BBC Radio and TV and am pleased that the story has generated
> postive press for meteorite collectors.
> 
> See Daves website for more info and some additional links to articles online:
> 
> (http://www.fallingrocks.com/Collections/WoldCottage.htm)
> 
> Also the British and Irish Meteorite society (BIMS) has a short write
> up in the news section:
> 
> (http://www.bimsociety.org)
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin
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Received on Thu 22 Apr 2010 06:23:54 PM PDT