Meetings

Monthly Meetings:

Are held on the third Monday of each month at the University of South Carolina's (USC)-McKissick Museum’s Auditorium, on the USC campus.  Socializing and refreshments at 7:00 pm; Meeting begins at 7:30 pm.  Please enter from the Horseshoe.

Please save your stamp from the Newsletter, and send it to Leslie Aiken or bring it to the meeting.

Executive Board Meetings:

The meetings are held on the fourth Monday of each month in the back room at the Grecian Garden, 2312 Sunset Blvd in West Columbia. Meal is at 6:30pm. Meeting is at 7:00 pm. All members and guests are invited to attend.

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From the Historian

ORIGINS

Geologists and astronomers tell us that about four and one-half billion years ago, the universe was created.  Earth and its moon emerged and cooled.  Oceans formed and continents arose.  All things changed, sometimes slowly and sometimes from violent volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and great tsunamis.  Millions of years later, the ocean shoreline of what was later to be called the Atlantic Ocean had its white capped waves rushing ashore along the beaches of what is now the Sandhills of South Carolina.  Our Columbia Gem and Mineral Society may be a recent creation, but the core of its content goes back to the earliest times, since the gems, fossils and minerals we love trace the history of the earth with all its beauty.

Stan Pefley, Historian