We visited the Museum of the Earth to the west side of Ithaca up route 96 the road to Trumansburg the other week and I forgot to post the pictures. This place was extremely kid friendly, well-resourced and interesting. I don't know why there are so many well set up places in the Ithaca area though I suspect it has to do with retired Cornell univeristy professors as it is run by or associated with an outfit called the Paleontological Research Institution.

We got 20 minutes on the monitoring of earthquakes as one gent changed the paper in the seismograph. He also explained how he discovered the mastodon's head twenty years before. It is also good that it is based on reality-based reality without concern for the current politically correct deference to hocus-pocus.

And it's placed on high ground so it'll be around for a while. Click on any photo for a bigger view. Dare ya.