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Ann Klose / The Courier

A 22,000 year-old woolly mammoth tusk is eased very gently into the McKinstry Library on the Lincoln College campus Wednesday afternoon. The prehistoric artifact is now much drier and more intact than when student Judd McCullum, right, found it in two parts in Sugar Creek a little more than a year ago. Illinois State Museum experts restored it, designed and built a display case for it, and oversaw the tusk's installation in Lincoln. College faculty member G. Dennis Campbell, second from right, recruited many student volunteers for all the heavy lifting.

Ann Klose / The Courier

They lower the Plexiglas cover over the tusk. At 6 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln College will host an unveiling of The Judd Tusk, as the 11-footer is now called. It's the largest mammoth tusk found in Illinois.

Mammoth undertaking at college
By ANN KLOSE
THE COURIER

Published Thursday, October 26, 2006

A 22,000 year-old woolly mammoth tusk is eased very gently into the McKinstry Library on the Lincoln College campus Wednesday afternoon.

The prehistoric artifact is now much drier and more intact than when student Judd McCullum found it in two parts in Sugar Creek a little more than a year ago. Illinois State Museum experts restored it, designed and built a display case for it, and oversaw the tusk's installation in Lincoln. College faculty member G. Dennis Campbell recruited many student volunteers for all the heavy lifting. Second photo, they lower the Plexiglas cover over the tusk. At 6 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln College will host an unveiling of The Judd Tusk, as the 11-footer is now called. It's the largest mammoth tusk found in Illinois.