Petoskey stone
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Petoskey stone
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#2I grew up in the small town of Petoskey, MI. You can indeed just walk down the shores of Lake Michigan and find these. People at local camps come and gather them one day and then spend the rest of their vacation polishing them in rock polishing stations and fashioning them into jewelry and stuff. All the gift shops sell Petoskey stone paper weights, knives, boxes, necklaces, Michigan-shaped Petoskey stones, you name it!
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#3Why a Wiki page of a stone on the front page of HN ?
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#4Why a Wiki page of a stone on the front page of HN ?
Anything intellectually interesting is welcome here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Wikipedia pages about predictable things are not interesting, but when the topic is uncorrelated with anything else, they're fine.
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#5I grew up in the small town of Petoskey, MI. You can indeed just walk down the shores of Lake Michigan and find these. People at local camps come and gather them one day and then spend the rest of their vacation polishing them in rock polishing stations and fashioning them into jewelry and stuff. All the gift shops sell Petoskey stone paper weights, knives, boxes, necklaces, Michigan-shaped Petoskey stones, you name…
All the stuff I didn't know I didn't know that I get to know I didn't know on HN every single day. Thank you :)
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#6Why a Wiki page of a stone on the front page of HN ?
Because it is, you know, interesting.
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#7I was there and found a few on Saturday. I try to make it to Petoskey at least once per year. Looking for these is one of my favorite ways to spend an afternoon.
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#8We always used to go up to Torch Lake during summer when I was a kid. Collected a bunch of these. The easiest way to find them is to bring some water with you and go for a walk on a rocky road, and pour the water on likely rocks. The water makes the pattern much clearer and fewer people look for them on the roads.
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#9Well this was a serendipitous post! My wedding anniversary is coming up and I wasn't sure what to get my wife. Thanks to this, I looked up 'Petoskey stone' on Amazon and found a pretty necklace for sale. Someday I'd love to visit Michigan and buy matching earrings/bracelet in person.
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#10Spent many summers up at Glen Lake as a kid sanding and polishing these stones. Lots of fun.