Summer Seminar

 

2020

Summer Seminar in Geology

June 24-June 30, 2020

Watch for more information about this fieldtrip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton NP in Wyoming

 

 

Heart of America Science Resource Center

Summer 2020 Creation Tour of Yellowstone National Park led by Dr. Jerry Simmons (DocRock) and in conjunction with Noah Webster College

 

The final dates for the Yellowstone trip tour are Wednesday, June 24^th through Tuesday, June 30^th.  We will start our tour on the evening of the 24^th at the Best Western Motel at Diamondville, WY (next door to Kemmerer) where we can meet and get oriented to our tour plan. I will have a Fossil Fish PowerPoint presentation that same evening to showcase a few of the past and some of the current fantastic finds from the area that are giving tremendous evidence of the Flood. The next day, the 25^th, we start the trip at the fossil fish quarry in Kemmerer where we will spend 1/2 day digging fossil fish and 1/2 day at the Fossil Butte Museum nearby.  Then on the 26^th we will travel north to the Jackson Hole area ,making one or two stops along the way before we spend the evening at the Jackson Hole Bible College. I have made contact with the college and they will put us up for the night at a very reasonable rate (much cheaper than a motel). The president of the college, who is on the Answers in Genesis board of directors, will give us a creation talk that evening. Once we leave Jackson Hole proper on the 27th we will make a couple of brief stops: 1)?? view a sculptors museum showcasing animal scenes, and 2) amazing sites and geology spots on the east side of the Grand Tetons.  On this day we will enter the SW portion of the famous figure 8 tour route of Yellowstone National Park and spend the evening in West Yellowstone. The following three days, the 28^th-30^th, we will have a great time traveling most of the rest of the figure 8 route park sites (Gardiner, MT will be evening stop on the 28^th, Cooke City, MT on the 29^th, and Canyon Village on the 30^th). The morning of July 1^st will be the official end of the Yellowstone Creation Adventure Trip.  Participants will then have three choices: 1) to head toward home, 2) to complete the final segment of the “8” loop along the west side of Yellowstone Lake on their own, or 3) to travel to Cody, WY where there are a number of interesting museums and the world famous Cody Rodeo.  You are welcome to tag along with me as I travel to Cody and then venture into more isolated areas in search of the rock/mineral/fossil treasures that are abundant in WY.I will be headed to WY on June 20^th and most likely leave on July 10^th. 

If you are interested in being a part of this 2020 Creation Adventure, please let us know and make your plans.  I have enclosed preliminary contact information for parks, motels, campgrounds, etc. so you can make your reservations early (now if possible).  We will try to stay together as a group as much as possible and work as a big Christian family with devotions, prayer and lots of good Creation/Christian fellowship.  I am sure, as has been the case on all of our other adventures, we will have times for ministering to interested by-standers.  SO JOIN US ON THIS EDUCATIONAL, INSPIRATIONAL, EDIFYING JOURNEY INTO THIS SPECIAL SPOT IN GOD'S CREATION.

Heart of America Fees for this trip are:

1. $50 nonrefundable registration fee per family sent in before March 1^st, 2020. This helps me to know who is serious about this awesome trip and also cover some of the time I have spent in preparing your agenda, making contacts, and getting your trip packet ready for you. This amount will be deducted from the amount charged (see below) if that individual or family takes the tour.  So if you go as an single adult the $50 dollar nonrefundable will be applied to the $200 fee and you would only pay the remaining $150.  If a family goes, then $50 would be deducted from the total for the family. The remaining amount will need to be paid in full on June 24^th, 2020. 

Send your reservation fee payable to “Heart of America Science Resource Center”, 312 East US Hwy. 54/400, Haviland, KS 67059

2.  $200 per adult,
3.  $125 per teen ages 13-18
4.  $100 per child ages 6-12
5.  No charge for children 5 and under
6.  Donation for participation in activities with DocRock before or after the tour for those rockhounds who need

 to rock!!!

 

Jerry  Simmons, "DocRock"

Contact information:  jerry.simmons@barclaycollege.edu or linda.simmons@barclaycollege.edu or  jdkinzer@msn.com (Noah Webster College participants)

 

Here is the itinerary for this Creation Adventure involving Heart of American Science Center and Noah Webster College.

 

Date	Activity	Notes
*June 24thKS participants	Everyone congregates at Kemmerer Best Western Motel	Travel to and stay at Kemmerer
*June 25thKS participants	½ day at fossil fish quarry, ½ day at Fossil Butte National Monument Museum	Stay at Kemmerer
June 26th  Noah Webster College Group will join us on this day.	Leisurely travel to Jackson Hole, WY	Will stay at facilities at Jackson Hole Bible College for this night
June 27th	Leave Jackson Hole and begin SW portion of Yellowstone tour	Stay at West Yellowstone for the night
June 28th	Tour west portion of Yellowstone	Stay at Gardiner, MT for the night
June 29th	Tour NW and North portion of Yellowstone	Stay at Cooke City—Silver Gate, MT for the night
June 30th	Finish Yellowstone tour with   East part of the figure 8 loop.	Stay at Canyon Village, WY for the final evening or start travel back to your turf.
July 1stTRIP  OVER All participants are on their own at this point.	Take in attractions in Cody, WY. Famous Gun museum, etc. etc.  Organized or your choice.	Spend evening in Cody or complete the Yellowstone SE portion of the park or begin travel home .Riverton, WY is a decent stopping site with a nice rock shop and some museums.

 

 

There are campgrounds in most of the areas we will be staying so you will need to check out those sites if you plan on camping.

 

Reminder---park entrance fee is $25 per vehicle, so if you have a National park pass be sure to bring it!!

 

College credit.  Through Noah Webster College some of you may want to gain college credit for this venture.  The trip and the completion of the workbook will merit 2 credit hrs and an addition 1 credit can be gained by doing the follow-up reading/paper assignment.   This is great!

 

Wyoming Creation Adventure II

Motel and Campgrounds Information

 

Location	Motel	Campground	Notes
Rawlins, WY	Comfort Inn 855-239-9246 Best Western--Cottontree Inn 855-214-4563
Kemmerer, WY	Best Western—Fossil Country 307-877-3388 307-877-3377	Foothills 307-877-6634 Riverside 307-877-3416	Let’s see if we can all stay in this motel for the first two nights.  We have a good meeting place in this facility.
Jackson Hole, WY	Super 8 1-800-238-0767 Motel 6 307-733-1620	Virginian 307-733-7189 Jackson Hole 3070732-2267 Jenny Lake 307-543-3100	We will all be staying at the Jackson Hole Bible Institute facilities in Jackson Hole, WY.  June 26
West Yellowstone, MT	Best Western—Desert Inn 1-800-637-5958 Comfort Inn 1-844-663-2276 Super 8 1-800-536-1211 Holiday Inn Exp—West Yellowstone 1-866-219-7632	Lionshed 406-646-7862   Ft Jax 406-646-7729   Wagon Wheel 406-646-7872
Gardiner, MT	Comfort Inn—Yellowstone North 406-848-7536 Holiday Inn Exp 1-800-315-2621 Super 8 406-818-7401	Eagle Creek 406-848-7375   Timber Campground 406-587-6701   Gardiner dist. 406-587-6701
Cooke City-Silver Gate, MT	Alpine 406-838-2262 Super 8 Wyndham 406-838-2070 Soda Butte Lodge 406-838-2251	Soda Butte 406-848-7375 Colter 406-848-7375 Fox Creek 307-527-6921
Canyon Village, WY (in Yellowstone Park)	Canyon Lodge & Cabins 307-344-7311	4-7311 Cascade Lake 4E4	This may be the hardest area to get a room or space for the evening.
Cody, WY	Best Western—sunset Motor Inn 1-800-637-5958 Comfort Inn at BuffaloBillVillage 1-844-204-2135 Holliday Inn at Buffalo Bill Vil. 307-587-5555	Cody KOA 307-587-2369   Ponderosa 307-587-9203	Riverton and Lander both have nice motels for those who head back home during the pm of the 30th.

 Please join us for this spectacular geology fieldtrip led by NWC professor, Dr. Jerry Simmons, to collect fossils and rock specimens and visit Yellowstone N.P. and Grand Teton N.P. in Wyoming.

 

 

 

 

 

Cost:  $10 per person, $15 for a couple, $5 per student, NWC students and faculty are free.  The seminar fee is paid one time at the door at the first seminar you attend, and the one fee pays for all seminars you attend.  All three seminars are covered by the one fee.

 

  The Noah Webster College Summer Seminar gives the public an opportunity to hear teachers who have done extensive work in a given field of study, and following a lecture, participants are invited to participate in questions and discussion of the topic.