Episode 101: Guest Jeffrey Post

The Jewelry District

JCK

Fashion & Beauty, Business News, Business, Arts, News

9.9 • 25 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

JCK editor-in-chief Victoria Gomelsky and news director Rob Bates sit down with Jeffrey Post, research associate and curator emeritus, to hear where his love for minerology began. Jeffrey describes a visitor’s experience to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as well as some of the stories attached to the gems he has encountered over the course of his 32 years as its curator of gems and minerals (including a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study the famous Hope and Wittelsbach Graff diamonds side-by-side).Sponsored by De Beers: institute.debeers.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the jewelry district, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by the De Beers Institute of Diamonds.
0:16.9	Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gimelsky talk with Jeffrey Post, research associate and curator
0:22.3	emeritus at the National Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
0:29.8	Hey, everyone.
0:31.1	Welcome to the jewelry district.
0:33.0	This is Victoria Gimelsky, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCP online.com, calling in from Los Angeles,
0:39.8	and I'm with...
0:40.6	Rob Bates, news director of JCPay and JCP online.com, calling in from New York City.
0:46.1	Hi, Rob.
0:47.0	Hey, how you doing?
0:48.4	I'm good. I'm good. I'm kind of refreshed. I just spent a few days in the Eastern
0:53.0	Cierras, which are a really
0:55.6	beautiful part of California that runs up the middle of the state closer to the border of Nevada.
1:02.2	A lot of people have heard of Mammoth, which is a really popular skiing destination,
1:05.3	and it's just north of there. We go camping every year to June Lake, and there's an amazing gold mining town that's now a state park.
1:13.1	It's a ghost town, but it's been a state park for many years.
1:16.0	And we have friends who run a hotel that was founded in the town of Bodie when it was a gold mining town in the late 1800s.
1:22.6	And then the hotel was moved on logs, pulled by horses, in around 1920 to the town of Bridgeport,
1:28.9	about 20 miles north.
1:30.2	And our friends bought this kooky, amazing hotel about a year and a half ago.
1:35.4	And we stayed there.
1:36.4	So it was really cool to have both a camping experience and this really historic hotel
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