Rocket City Jewelers (RCJ) meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 6p – 9p and the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays from 2p – 5p. We meet in the RCJ room in the new HGMS Education Center. Due to concern about COVID-19, we must practice social distancing. Therefore, depending on how many people RSVP for a given class, we may need to spread the group into the Pebble Pups/GeoSciences room, or have 2 sessions on the same Wednesday, one from 2p-5p and the other from 6p-9p. Watch your text messages for updates.
We offer a non-chainmaille class the first Wednesday of the month, and a chainmaille class on the third Wednesday of the month. Other Wednesday nights are “Finish It” nights so you can work on individual projects. This is a great time to finish unfinished projects, work on individual projects, and catch up with classes you may have missed. 5th Wednesdays are TBD.
For more information, to sign up for a class, or to let us know if you missed a class, please send email to hsvgems@gmail.com. Class signups are also available at the regular HGMS monthly meetings and the RCJ Wednesday night meetings.
Did You Know? In January, a staff member at Gosman’s Fish Market in Montauk, Long Island, was shucking clams when he discovered a rare pearl. Finding an intact pearl in food preparation is uncommon because most clams are shucked mechanically and any pearls are lost or destroyed. This pearl weighed 27.78 carats and measured a whopping 18.9 x 11.32mm – that’s slightly larger than a dime! GIA confirmed that the extraordinarily large pearl formed naturally. Source: 
June: Pearl - Produced in the bodies of marine and freshwater mollusks either naturally or cultured by people with great care. Lustrous, smooth, subtly-colored pearls are jewelry staples, especially as strands. Alexandrite: The color-change variety of the mineral chrysoberyl. Bluish green in daylight, purplish red under incandescent light; hard and durable. Top quality examples are rare and valuable.
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