Nathan and Owen spent the week at the PFW mastodon’s basketball camp. This is always a highlight of the summer! The PFW mastodon basketball team coach coaches and runs the camp for kids from first grade through eighth grade. The kids had some friends join this year, which was extra fun! They loved it as always. Owen‘s team won his championship division game on the last day of camp and he was so proud! Of course, at the end they spent time getting signatures and autographs from all the players. The players become role models and heroes to these kids.
One morning before camp started, I walked the kids down the hallway to see the display of mastodon bones that were found in Orsie Routsong’s farmland. It’s pretty cool to see the Routsong family posted on the wall at PFW. Orsie Routsong was digging a pond in 1969 and came across some large bones. He had the IPFW geology department come check out the bones and complete an excavation of almost an entire mastodon skeleton. They studied the bones and laid them out and discovered that the bones were between 10,000 and 12,000 years old. What an amazing story! We have a special tie to PFW because of that story. Orsie Routsong was grandpa Bill Routsong’s uncle.
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