Afternoon Field program

After Andy golfed and I went to yard sales with Allison on Saturday, Andy and I went to the Field Museum for a Founders Council program at 12:30 p.m. We were both pretty hungry so we filled up on fruit, cheese and very small, dry sandwiches and washed it down with a Diet Pepsi. Not quite a lunch, but it worked.

The reception and a brief chat by the featured archaeologist (from Australia - he sounded like a BeeGee) was in the Founders Room. We had been in that room for a program six years ago. They seem to like to stage the receptions in different areas of the museum which is a nice perk as you get to see rooms the general public doesn't have access to.

This is the hall just outside the Founders Room where the food and drinks were set up. The huge clay pot at the left is a Japanese jar used for tea storage at the 1893 World's Fair, the Columbian Exposition, in Chicago. It was donated to the museum by the Tokoname Earthenware Co., of Tokyo.

Walking through Stanley Hall to get the Montgomery Ward Hall where the archeologist would be talking to more people, we saw crews beinging in pretty flowers for a wedding.

In the lecture, "First Stories: The Ice Age Stories of Sulawesi," he talked about the cave drawings he and his team have discovered, the oldest found in the world ... so far.

On the drive home we saw Buckingham Fountain giving its hourly water show.