5/26/2011 TELL Com. W.S. Somers 9:45 a.m. called STEWARZ Somers of South Britain (203-264-3567). 9 a.m. that his father Franklin Charles Somers was a well driller who worked over much of New England and had amassed a large coll. of RX, incl. petrified wood from Southbury. Unfortunately this coll. did NOT have any locality data w/ it. "My father knew where they came from but did not write it down" per S. Somers. When his father died ~1980, the coll. several people "from Yale and UConn came to see it the coll. but refused to take it. S. Somers then gave the remainder to Bill BarRETT on Old Poverty Rd. This is the same elderly genE who lent us a piece of wood in October of 2009. Mr. S. Somers was the Town Surveyor and a civil engineer