Ice Age DuPage Illinois - The Perry Mastodon

[@sandrabrown2109]

Thank you

[@BeHistoric]

Thank you for watching!

[@JohnAdorjan]

Great writing and research. Excellent work!

[@BeHistoric]

Glad that you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching and commenting! The kind words are appreciated!

[@johnmarshall6100]

Greetings Brian and Joyce! Discovered you on the Glen Ellyn site. I spent a lot of time prowling the Perry's Lake area in my childhood, felt like a very special place for us kids. Now I've subscribed & am working my way through your very interesting videos. This is really good and exciting work, I am enjoying being a fan!

[@BeHistoric]

Thank you for your kind words. The Perry Lake area is kind of a hidden oasis. We're glad to hear you are enjoying our videos!

[@Tom-jj5ij]

Thank you both for your yet another masterpiece!!

[@BeHistoric]

Glad that you enjoyed the video and found it of interest! We enjoy making them. Very satisfying to know that other people appreciate them too. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@uncletrick1]

I grew up in Wheaton. I visited the mastodon display at Wheaton College several times.

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Yes, it is a very nice display of the Perry Mastodon specimen at Wheaton College. Would recommend to anyone in the area.

[@thomasmackowiak]

Thank you for this very interesting video about the Perry Mastodon. You must have spent a lot of time researching the information that you presented in this video.

[@BeHistoric]

We did indeed - but it was a lot of fun. Great meeting with Dr Moshier as well. Thank you again for watching and supporting our channel!

[@danwentz]

Great story, I was born in Glen Ellyn in 1965 - a few blocks away from where this was going on!

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Geologically speaking, the area is still of considerable interest - a special place in DuPage county. Thanks again!

[@bonnieostberg2989]

Excellent video, Brian and Joyce! Well documented and very informative. And I loved the ending where you take us back in time. Bravo.

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks for watching and your continuing support! We appreciate it!

[@HarpsichordHymnsTimRemington]

Very fascinating and detailed information! Thank you for creating and sharing this video.

[@BeHistoric]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@frankpmarsala7682]

I was in 7th grade when the dig was happening and spent much time watching the work. The Mastodon, mount at Wheaton College, has been a favorite periodic stop for me. Shared it with our girls as they were growing up :)

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks for sharing your personal experience with the Perry Mastadon excavation! From the photographs, it does appear to have been something of major event in the general community, with many tens or even hundreds of people watching, and from various vantage points. It obviously left a mark as you remember it so vividly even to this day. Glad that you enjoyed the video and that it brought back good memories! Thanks too for taking the time to leave a comment!

[@davewolfy.5932]

Around 1986 I was hired to. Clean out the perry house in the basement there were tons of movie posters on the walls . this well Produced video answered all my questions about the judge, the pond, the dinosaur. Love your work🥰

[@BeHistoric]

Very interesting about your experiences in the Perry house. Thank you again for your support and your comments!

[@GOMF-eq4qc]

Brian and Joyce, thanks for another wonderful video series. So many great visuals. Though I am retired and was a therapist and therapeutic school administrator, I had a keen interest in local history, and helped several of the teachers do field trips to try to bring history to life for students who tended to have difficulty learning. Hope you don’t mind, but I recommended your channel to some of my colleagues to use before taking their students to see some of these sites. One of the field trips was to the Pratt Wayne/Pate Phillip excavation site during the dig. The scientist in charge was so nice and let some of my students take pictures with one of the mastodon teeth, which made their day, for sure. Thanks for your excellent work.

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks very much for watching and the support! And thanks very much for recommending our channel to your colleagues - we're very flattered by that. The last of this series will discuss the Pratt-Wayne site, of which you are already familiar. As you know, you can learn quite a bit from visiting these various sites, so it's a great way for young people - or people of any age really - to learn about local history and prehistory. Thank you again!

[@PaulRSmileyOyen]

Such good research and production of this enthralling story. So many more local residents and those who grew up nearby, will have a unique historic reference to the lands where we grew up. Thank you.

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks for watching and for the support! Yes, our goal is to make this history and pre-history better known and more accessible. There are dozens of excellent local history museums, colleges, libraries, and universities in the area that can tell people even more - but we hope to bring many of these places to life - and perhaps inspire people to do their own research.

[@nlr1962]

Thank you!!! Wheaton College's involvement has always seemed like such am irony to me.

[@BeHistoric]

Yes, that was an interesting aspect to this story. Glad that you enjoyed the video! And thank you for taking the time to comment!

[@johnknapp6328]

Great Presentation All of your presentations are fantastic, with the history of the past.

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks for the kind words and for watching! We appreciate the support!

[@davewolfy.5932]

Great video

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks for watching and for the kind words!

[@turdferg100]

Winslow and his wife might just be the scariest couple I've ever seen..

[@BeHistoric]

Indeed ... those are not flattering portraits, at least by today's standards.

[@nickedmonton8223]

Wow, what a cheap, selfish jerk Perry was to give them only eight days to work on this incredibly important site.

[@BeHistoric]

Thanks for watching and commenting! It's hard to say what the driving factor was there. It was a big outlay of time/energy on the part of the college as well - so it may have seemed to be a reasonable compromise to all. As it is, they successfully retrieved a good portion of the skeleton. Today, such an excavation would have more carefully examined taphonomy, stratigraphy, environment, etc, likely taking much longer.

[@nickedmonton8223]

@@BeHistoric ​ @BeHistoric The video says that Perry told the researchers they had 8 days because he was paying for the excavator. He couldn't have found some public or other private funding or changed the schedule on his fun, landscaping project?

[@BeHistoric]

@@nickedmonton8223 Yes, understood. Simply pointing out that the volunteer work force were in the middle of a college term - and may not have been able to work much more than that regardless. Just pointing out that Perry's money may not have been the only constraint.

[@nickedmonton8223]

@@BeHistoric Thanks for the context.

[@crzrck]

There is no way a private citizen could do do a project like that connected to a river these days. It is one thing to make your own pond on private property but to alter a flood plain with a river that drains into it is illegal now.... If you think about it they were fortunate to just happen to hang up on that first bone....Otherwise it would still be there hidden away till the end of time