in all at once, to come in, save your stuff up, come in one day a year and ask what is this thing anyway. you could get a real answer from somebody likely to know. new yorker magazine wrote about that first event and what the expert on rocks and fossils looked at in the span of a half hour. he identified a snail fossil, fossils of brachiopods, a piece of lava, a piece of a man hat and schist, limestone, piece of agate, coral, some quartz, i am going to stop there, you get the idea, it is friday, hard to pronounce. over the years, a lot of people brought in stuff to identification day they thought was important that didn't turn out to be important. but every now and again they really do find something amazing at identification day. like this thing. a couple found it on a beach in