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 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
