--HELEN KELLER

Your presence and that of your guests is being requested at our upcoming New England Chapter of The Explorers Club Meeting on Monday the 30th of January at the Doubletree Guest Suites hotel on Soldier´s Field Road in Boston.

Our Meeting will include the makings of an Ice Age Beasts evening, with a presentation by WGBH TV's NOVA Senior Science Editor, EVAN HADINGHAM, who will discuss the topic of Ice Age megafauna, and some of the highly controversial theories that he has researched over the years. (One of these being that of the Clovis-era comet that is supposed to have done in the mammoths.) And, Evan will present us with an exclusive world premier sneak preview of 40 minutes of the NOVA show "ICE AGE DEATH TRAP." There is sure to be a lively questions/answers/discussion session afterward.

Here is some information specific to the NOVA program, ICE AGE DEATH TRAP:

During construction near a Colorado ski resort, a bulldozer driver digs up something strange: a tooth so huge he had to hold it in two hands. Scientists from the local Denver museum race to the scene and identify it as a tooth from an extinct mammoth. They can scarcely believe what they find at the site: a vast trove of fossils from the depths of the Ice Age 100,000 years ago, when North America teemed with incredible beasts: massive mastodons, camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as an elephant with huge claws. In the biggest ever fossil dig in the Rockies, the team unearths a perplexing riddle: evidence that entire families of many mastodons died suddenly as they grazed beside an ancient lake. Patiently, clue by clue, the team reconstructs a macabre scenario in which the soil beside the lake liquefies then hardens, swiftly trapping entire mastodon families. Unable to move, the mighty tusked beasts slowly starve to death. Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, NOVA’s Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America’s most exotic and extreme creatures.

Please join us for what promises to be a most interesting and enlightening evening!

This New England Chapter of The Explorers Club MONDAY, JANUARY 30th 2012 event for members, guests, and friends will be held at the Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel, overlooking the Charles River and adjacent to the Harvard Business School near the Cambridge/Allston on/off ramp to the Massachusetts Turnpike, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, Telephone (617) 783-0090.

You may park in the hotel garage (PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS USUALLY NO PARKING CHARGE FOR EXPLORERS CLUB MEMBERS AND GUESTS), getting your parking ticket activated, as you tell them "Explorers Club," on your way out at the front desk.

The Social Hour begins at 7:00 p.m. in the hotel's well-appointed (cash) bar and lounge above the second floor, and the presentations begin just after 8 p.m. The pith helmet is passed around for a $10 truly voluntary donation per person requested to help defray the cost of room rental, which is payable at the event.

All guests, friends, family, and interested parties are welcome.

If you let us know ahead of time that you intend to come, that would be helpful; but regardless, do come, whether or not you let us know. Dress as you wish.

For any further information, or if you want to let us know that you are coming, please call me at (781) 968-5174 or email to <greg_deyermenjian@yahoo.com> or <paititi@alumni.clarku.edu> or

<paytiti@gmail.com>.

Thank you.

Yours in exploration,

Greg Deyermenjian

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