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Dinosaur enthusiast Donald Baumgartner will explore the science behind the popular film series! What was true? What was wrong? Would it really happen that way? Recommended for ages 10+.
Donald Baumgartner is a Medical Entomologist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Chicago and Adjunct Faculty in Biology at W.R. Harper College in Palatine. Donald is also President of a small fossil retail company named “The Fossil Hut Ltd.” through which he sells common and unusual fossils throughout the upper Midwest at club rock shows. Collecting fossils is his hobby and addiction. He has traveled far and wide to dig dinosaurs and ammonites in Montana, unearth dinosaur tracks in Massachusetts, hunt for shark teeth and shells in North Carolina and Florida, fossil crabs in Washington, and fossil clams in Oregon.
Registration will open at 9 a.m. on Monday, October 9.
This branch shares the Eola Community Center buiding with the Fox Valley Park District. It offers a quiet reading room with a fireplace, study rooms and a family computer lab. The Eola Road Branch has public meeting rooms that may be used for community programs.
