Answers for Questions
Famous Places
1. ) The button that linked you to this page was made from a picture
taken from the visitors portico at the White House looking down
at the cobblestones.
Summer Activity: Try making a design using a pattern found in
nature or designing an original link for your own web site. If
you use a rock, mineral or gem, show it to us. Let us know your
URL and we will visit your web site.
2.) Did you recognize any specific beach? The photos were taken
at the beaches of Woods Hole, Hyannisport, and Osterville, Massachusetts
USA.
Summer Activity: Try taking some pictures of rocks in a new way.
Write a story about "a rock adventure". Take a rock
on vacation or pick one up on your vacation.
Land Trivia
3.) What land mass is surrounded by water but is not an island.
It's Cape Cod . Cape Cod was a natural peninsula that has a man
made canal.
4.) The earliest discovery of gold in New England was made by
John Winthrop. He found a small gold specimen in Massachusetts.
The original specimens are now part of the British Museum, and
were part of the Hans Sloane collection but no longer well documented.
An old catalog dating back to 1681 is the only historical document.
pre-Revolutionary commercial level mining has taken place in Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont. Gold can be found in many streams all over New England.
For a summer activity: Try looking for gold;
Do not do this alone!
1)The Lead Mine Brook- in Plymouth, Connecticut
2)Couch Brook- in Bernardston, Massachusetts
3)Broad Book- in Plymouth Vermont
4)Wild Ammonoosuc River, Siftwater, New Hampshire
5)East Branch of the Swift River, Byron Maine
Historical
5.) Our first known collector of minerals and ores in New England was John Winthrop
(1606-1676). The catalog from four boxes of specimens were sent to the Royal
Society of London and published in 1681.
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