Meriden Historical Society, Inc.
Meriden Historical Society, Inc.

STONE BREAKER AND THE HANGING HILLS

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Join us at the Historical Society to hear Kathleen Housley, author of Stone Breaker: James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England.  She will be sharing the life of James Gates Percival.  He was far more than a geologist: he was physician, poet, linguist (24 languages), and botanist. His love of the Hanging Hills was lifelong. It was his realization that the Hanging Hills were volcanic and far older than 6,000 years, the presumed age of the Earth during his time, that helped push geology forward as a science in New England.

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