Rock Show at the Phillips County Museum

Phillips County’s own Mitch and Annie Blatter displayed quite the collection on rocks at Phillips County Museum’s first Gems and Minerals Presentation last Friday afternoon with over twenty in attendance.

The Blatters own a ranch in Phillips County, but spend several months in Yuma, Arizona; the place where the retired couple found a new hobby six years ago.

“We started rock hounding when we retired in 2010,”Annie said. “We went to Yuma and we joined the Rock and Mineral Club.”

At the time the couple joined the club there were only 60 members. Today the club has reached over 200.

The club does...