Friends of the Pleistocene. What it is. A
non-organization. No elected officers. No by-laws. No membership fee. No
permananent mailing address to which enquiries or any other
correspondence are to be directed. Just a meet once a year for a field
trip somewhere... well, somewhere... to look, discuss, and enjoy things
Pleistocene and see old friends and acquaintances to boot.
For the curious, the heritage of the Friends dates to the Quaternary geologist Richard Foster Flint and some of his colleagues who conceived and convened the first meeting of this type back in Connecticut in 1934. Cells of it have since spread across the U.S.... |