Get tips from an expert at Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art to help fuel your kid’s interest in rocks — and start their own rock collection. Plus, three great upcoming events perfect for kids. It’s ...

Most kids are intrigued by simple things. How much more “down to earth” can you get than the ordinary rock? When we lived on the farm, my brothers, sisters and I had fun gathering all sorts of rocks.

Shuffle the event cards and place them face down beside “the Field” A rock collector should always take a collection bag to collect their rocks. But the problem is that it will only hold so many rocks ...

A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified decades later as that of a Marine who died in a 1951 training accident. Last year, the Yavapai ...

Since my daughter was born three years ago, there are many things she has taught me. Some of the lessons feel profound. I have learned to be less rigid in my vision of what parenting should look like.

Linda Castro, left, assistant policy director of CalWild, with her dog Cash, and Gregor Losson, an advocate for rock and mineral collectors, study a specimen at Cady Mountains in Mojave Trails ...

The Fossil, Gem, Mineral and Jewelry show held at Prairie State College over the weekend had a little something for amateur geologists of all ages. The annual event, now in its 49 th year, brought ...

LUSHAN, China—Some Chinese rock collectors prefer jade, others prettily crenelated limestone. Jiang Sui’an prefers stones that look like pieces of pork. Stones that turn up in riverbeds around Mr.

According to the Old Testament's book of Ecclesiastes, there is "a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them." For Jeri Kelly, a 29-year-old bagel store employee, the time to gather stones is ...