For the week of January 2 - 8, 2002

Students mine rock show for top grades

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By DANA DUGAN
Express Staff Writer

The Rock and Mineral Show was presented at the Wood River Middle School in Hailey shortly before the holidays break to a huge crowd of gawking parents, teachers and friends.

Wood River Middle School eighth-grader Lindsay Durkin, in a festive feather boa, beams over her "Club Rockbury," display, while Hadley Debree looks on. Express photo by Dana DuGan

 

This annual school exhibition draws attention because of the rollicking show of individuality. The eighth-graders devise sets upon which their rock and mineral collections are artfully displayed. The arrangements range from mines and sports fields, to beauty pageants, disco ballrooms, stage sets and popular books.

Among the appealing varieties were "Harry Rocker," where the characters were all rocks, a jewelry store, a disco fever set, an Olympic stadium, a sumo wrestling match, a theater with bewigged rock actors and audience, a designer home model, the Hemsfield Quarry, a mountain surrounded by a train set, a rock climbing gym, a night and day beach scene, a race track, a skate park and a medieval war scene.

Extra credit goes to students who also coordinate their wardrobe to their display. Colleen Fiaschetti, as Harry Potter, who sat front and center in the hallway, was clearly a favorite. Swarming the main hallway in the Middle School were plenty of on-lookers—one might even refer to them as rock groupies.

 

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