The Earth Museum is an eye-catcher along the roadside in Garysburg. He shows the contents to school groups and Scout troops and individuals by appointment only. But the considerable array outside is always on view. The size of a one-car garage, a thorough look at every object inside and outside the building could take a day. Fossils, rocks, and leaf and fern imprints in concrete fill a porch and overflow into the yard.
Fossils form part of the walls at the musuem.
Shark's teeth, sperm whale tusks, Indian arrowheads, a branch of petrified driftwood with equally old sea creatures still clinging to it and other favored discoveries fill small tables and display cases. One petrified wood specimen has turned to glittering crystal. Another dates to the Ice Age. Major fossil finds in North Carolina include marine worms and sloth bones. One of his dearest treasures is a shiny black rough-edged stone about the size of walnut.