The Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club, Inc.

The Junonia January 2020

th January 12 Club Meeting Initiates Time Sanibel Shell Show Is Coming Up Fast Change for Silent Auction rd The 83 Annual Sanibel Shell Show will be here before The January 12th meeting of the Sanibel-Captiva Shell we know it. Because it is the only major fundraiser for our Club will be held in the main auditorium at the Sanibel Shell Club, we ask our members to volunteer for at least 2 Community House. Please note that beginning this month, hours during the three-day show. All the shifts are 2 hours the silent auction will begin at 1:30 and will close at 2:00. long. The dates are March 5, 6 and 7. Look for Clair There will not be a break during the meeting for final silent Beckmann when you come into the lobby of the Community auction bids. (More information about the auction can be House for the January Shell Club meeting. She will be there found on page 2.) The meeting will begin promptly with the with her clipboard to find a time when you can help. These guest speaker at 2:00. times are not “written in stone” and can be changed if This month our guest speaker will be Sanibel-Captiva something comes up. Shell Club Member and former Bailey-Matthews National Here are some of the ways that you can help. Shell Museum Board Chair, Clair Beckmann. Clair will show  We need sales people for the Author’s Table, T-shirt pictures of shells she collected on dozens of collecting trips tent and the craft shells. around the world. The title of her talk is “Shells from A  Ticket sellers at the door will be needed. (Africa) to V (Venezuela)”, and she will give you the ABC’s  We like to have energetic greeters at the door to of how to find them on your vacation. Her presentation welcome people to the show. promises to be funny, fun and very informative.  Hosts and hostesses are needed in both exhibit halls to Beckmann’s first collecting trip was to Fiji with the remind people not to touch the exhibits and to answer Sanibel Shell Club over 20 years ago, where she learned questions. If you don’t know the answer, don’t worry, many things about shelling including it is NOT a good idea you can send them to the information desk. to carry a live poisonous cone around your neck in a  Are you an early morning riser? We need someone to collecting bag and it is NOT a good idea to wander into a come in at 6:00 a.m. to put on the coffee. village smelling like dead shells. She has had encounters with airport security who claimed a large Murex was a lethal Mark These Dates on Your Calendar weapon; has been extorted by armed Philippine soldiers for being in a van without seat February 9 – Monthly meeting; Speaker - Meredith Blain belts (but ended up having photos taken with the February 14 – By this date, all Shell Show entry forms must soldiers), has bunked on a have been received by the Scientific and/or Artistic freezing WW2 barge off the Chairpersons. cost of Columbia in order to shell in Panama, and she February 15 – Florida United Malacologists (FUM) meets at has had to buy back her the Shell Museum. Open to all Shell Club members. st camera from natives who Registration (free) is required prior to January 31 . To read expropriated it from a kayak more about FUM and to register, go to: in Fiji….All for shells!!! https://www.shellmuseum.org/florida-united-malacologists In addition to hundreds of photos, Beckmann will March 3 – All Shell Show exhibits must be brought to the share her many helpful tips Sanibel Community House for how to figure out where March 4 – Shell Show judging in the morning and the Shell to find shells when you are on vacation, and who and how Show Preview at the Community House at 5:00 PM to ask for help before your trip and once you are abroad. Beckmann and her husband, Ron Nixon, aka Mr. March 5, 6, 7 – 83rd Annual Sanibel Shell Show Cheap, reside on Sanibel and also in Colorado. On the island, Beckmann volunteers at FISH, chairs the Grants March 15 – Monthly meeting; Speaker - Bruce Neill, Committee for the Shell Club, works on the Shell Festival, Sanibel Sea School and is a very active Rotarian. April 5 – Monthly meeting; Speaker - Gary Schmelz.

1 40 Plus Items in January Silent Auction but didn’t know exactly where to start? I am planning a workshop on Tue., Jan. 14 at 9:00 a.m. at the Shell Over 40 items will be included in the January silent Museum for anyone and everyone who is interested in auction. The two young Spondylidae attached to the apple getting more information about entering the Sanibel Shell murex as seen below will be auctioned off in an oral Show. Do you wonder about what Shell Show Judges look auction. at when they are judging an exhibit? Dr. José Leal will be joining us to share some insight as to what is important when entering an exhibit. If you are interested in attending, please email me at [email protected] before January 10th.

How Our Grant Money Is Used . . .

Each month, The Junonia will feature one of our 2019 grants recipients. Grants are funded by the proceeds of the annual Shell Show.

Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation ($5,000)

Clams are bivalve filter feeders. They improve water quality by filtering phytoplanktons. Hard clams were once If you are looking for some beautiful dinnerware, you abundant in southwest Florida, but over-harvesting and will want to bid on these “never been used” shell-shaped changes in water quality led to a collapse of the fishery in dinner plates. Two sets with four plates in each set will be in the mid-twentieth century. the silent auction. The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club for a pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of restoring clam communities by creating spawner sanctuary sites for southern hard clams in San Carlos Bay, an area classified as prohibited for hard clam harvesting. Twelve thousand southern hard clams will be placed in three spawner sites. These sites, and nearby control plots without clams, will be tested for one year to determine how phytoplankton levels and water quality change due to the presence of the filter-feeding clams. This project will have the potential to encourage larger scale restoration efforts that could result in better water quality and understanding of hard clam biology.

Shell Bagging – Save the Dates by Linda Edinburg

This season, all the money raised by the auctions will For those of you who are new to the club this year, be used to help defray the monthly cost of renting the shell bagging is when we fill 4x4 bags with the shells we meeting room and AV equipment at the Sanibel Community give out to thank those who donate $5 to go into the shell House. show. We work on an assembly line basis, and have both If you have quality shells or shell-related items you standing and sitting chores. Some folks will sort shells by would like to donate for future auctions, please contact type, some will fill the baggies, and some will insert the Joyce Matthys at [email protected]. paper thank-you slips and seal the bags. Our only method of “paying” for your work is to encourage you to put a few Workshop for People Wanting to Know More shells that you admire into your pocket. About Entering a Shell or Shells in the Show Our gate shell bagging will again happen in Heron Hall at the Congregational United Church of Christ. The by Joyce Matthys address is 2050 Periwinkle Way, across from Periwinkle Place shopping area. Heron Hall is on the ground floor Are you a new Shell Club member or a long-time straight ahead from the parking lot, on the other side of the member who has never entered the Shell Show? Have you fountain. thought about entering a shell or group of shells in the show 2 The scheduled dates are Friday, February 14 and Please feel free to contact any of our Board members Saturday February 15. We will start around 10:00 am. or committee chairs if you have any questions about our Feel free to bring a lunch. There is a refrigerator to keep club or our club activities. We look forward to sharing our drinks and food cold. enthusiasm about shells with you. I will need one or two pick-up trucks or good-sized SUVs and some muscles on the afternoon of Thursday, the Thank You . . . . th 13 to help me transport the shells and supplies from the club’s storage unit on Cypress Lake to the church. A big “Thank You” goes out to Jackie McGonigle for If you have any questions or can help transport the offering to take over the door prizes that are given out at shells and supplies on Thursday, please call me at 239- our Shell Club meetings. 395-9426 or email me at wedodit@comcast.net. I look forward to sharing the camaraderie with many of Club Receives Generous Donation you! We always have fun. The Shell Club has again received a very generous Are You Planning to Enter the Shell Show donation from the Patricia Smith Wilmeth Fund. Sally and Artistic Division? Kim Wilmeth, daughters of Pat and Harvey Wilmeth, gave by Mary Burton this to the club in memory of their parents, who were long- Artistic Division Chair time active members of the club. They feel that our various grants for marine science projects are definitely something Happy New Year! Not only are we celebrating the their parents would be glad to support. beginning of a new year but a new decade. And soon we rd Sally and Kim, thank you so much for honoring your will be celebrating the 83 annual Sanibel Shell Show and parents with this significant donation to the Shell Club’s Shell Festival. Applications are arriving daily and fundraising efforts! indications are we will have another successful show to offer the public with many beautiful entries by our Rare Sea-silk Turban Hits the Auction Block exhibitors. The deadline for receiving the application is February by Joyce Matthys th 14 , or until such time all the available exhibition space has been reserved. If you plan to enter the show please send Headlines in the November issue of an online your application early to be assured your entries will be newspaper and in a magazine read, “Sea silk: the world's included and space is reserved in your name. You are most exclusive textile is being auctioned this week” and required to include a photograph of each exhibit you enter “World’s Rarest Textile to and your application will not be processed until that Cross Auction Block”. photograph is received. Emailed applications will not be Augusta’s Auctions in New accepted, however you can email your photographs. York City touted, “This auction Please pay special attention to the criteria and will feature an amazing measurements of each class you plan to enter. Exceeding example of the rarest textile the measurements is the number one reason why an entry that's ever passed our auction is disqualified from judging. Familiarize yourself with the block - a hat made from Sea rules and regulations of the show and the Artistic Division. Silk (Byssus).” Another site If you have any questions about entering the Artistic described it as “a 100 year old Division, please do not hesitate to contact me. My email hat fashioned from the rarest address is [email protected]. textile in the world.” I look forward to seeing you very soon as it will be Garments made from the “show time” before we know it. byssus of the Nobel Pen Shell, Pinna nobilis (Linnaeus, 1758) date back to antiquity. My interest in sea-silk peaked Welcome, New Members! when I began studying it in preparation for a Sanibel Shell Show exhibit. We welcome the following Nobel pen shells were harvested in the Mediterranean new members to the Sanibel- Sea primarily near the island of Sardinia. These pen shells Captiva Shell Club: grow to about 47” in length and their byssal threads can be  Karen & Bruce Potoka, 7” long. It is said that it took about 3,000 pen shells to yield Sanibel, FL about 4.4 pounds of byssus. We hope you will be able to The first documented item made from sea-silk was join us at our monthly meetings. determined to be from the 4th century. Regretfully, that One of the benefits of belonging to the Shell Club is article was lost during the bombing in World War II. The that you may visit the Shell Museum without charge. This is oldest article in existence today is a cap that dates back to because of the financial support the Sanibel-Captiva Shell the Middle Ages. Because of its rarity, only royalty and the Club gives the Museum. You will also receive a 20% very rich owned items made from sea-silk. discount on any purchases you make at the Museum Store.

3 The popularity of sea-silk continued into the 1920’s. As tenderness. The petit gris are smaller than your typical you can imagine, the pen shells were over-harvested. They canned snail - but that's a good thing! These are the bay are now a protected species. In fact, last month I received scallops of the snail world - sweet and tender. This species an email from Felicitas Maeder. She is the world authority was first introduced to North America when it was brought on sea-silk and is connected with the Basel Museum of over from Europe in the 1850's.” History in Basel, Switzerland. I became acquainted with her How are they raised and fed? The greenhouse when I was doing my research on sea-silk for my exhibit. operation provides the snails with fresh air and natural Felicitas wrote to me on behalf of the women in Sardinia sunlight. Because of the controlled environment, it is who are working to keep the craft of spinning byssus alive. possible to give customers a consistent product year round. She asked if I would be willing to sell them some of my Long Island soil is in the bins where the snails live. byssus because they are running out and they are no They eat the dirt to build their shells. Taylor says, “We longer allowed to collect it. I guess that she forgot that it actually grind up the old shells from snails that we have took me five years to collect a small zip lock bag of byssus processed and mix it with the soil because it’s a great from our Florida pen shells. I had to reply that regretfully I calcium supplement.” had walked Sanibel Island’s beaches all last winter and The snails’ diet is consistent with what they would eat in never found a single pen shell with the dead body inside the the wild, but with a twist. They are fed a diet of foraged wild shell. That is the only way that you can obtain the byssus. greens such as dandelion, burdock, clover, sorrel, and In conclusion, I just wonder how many pen shells were others that are collected in nearby woods. The “twist” taken for their byssus in order to create this turban. The comes when the snails are ready for processing. They are auction house anticipated that it would go for $5,000.00 to moved off the dirt and placed in empty bins. “At that time,” $8,000.00. I have not been able to find out the amount of Taylor says, “they are finished on a diet of herbs like mint, the winning bid. basil, and tarragon. Those herbs become prominent nuances in the snail's ultimate flavor profile.” Chef Becomes a Snail Farmer Taylor continues, “We believe that snails are future food! They're seriously packed with protein (one gram per by Joyce Matthys snail!) and they're rich in minerals. In fact, a 3-ounce serving of snails has nearly double the iron and potassium of a 3-ounce serving of beef. Snails are way more efficient at converting food into protein than traditional livestock because they can be grown in a smaller space and consume less feed and water. Let's face it, our natural resources are precious - let's do what we can to conserve them.”

Find cooking tips and recipes at the link below. https://www.peconicescargot.com

To read the very interesting New York Times article about Taylor Knapp go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/nyregion/snail- farm- peconic-escargot.html Photo provided by Peconic Escargot

Taylor Knapp was a chef on the North Fork of Long Museum Donates Boxes to Club Members Island in 2013, and like many good chefs, he preferred to use local and seasonal ingredients in preparing the dishes The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum is no on his menu. When he decided to create a special escargot longer using the boxes pictured below for storing their dish, he faced a dilemma. The only escargot available was shells and the museum is offering them to you, the Shell either canned or frozen. He wanted fresh snails. So what Club members. We have hundreds of these boxes available did he do? He became a “snail wrangler.” to anyone who would like them, and we will have them An article in the New York Times stated, “When he available for you at the January meeting. started, there was no snail-farming protocol in the United States, so he worked with the U.S.D.A. for several years to develop one, built a greenhouse from a mail-order kit, and opened his farm in July of 2017.” Taylor is now the owner of Peconic Escargot, and is one of just a few certified snail farmers in the country. How many snails are under his care? His company is home to about 70,000 petit gris snails. When describing these snails, Taylor says, “They are a heritage French species known for their exquisite flavor and 4 Field Trip Updates 2020 Sanibel Shell Show’s Kitchen by Susi Butler, Field Trip Chair by Joyce Matthys

Happy New Year, Shellers!! Are you ready for some fun field trips? I will have a table set up at the January meeting Traditionally the shell shows provide coffee and sweets where you can ask questions about the coming field trips in the morning and lunch for the persons who have to be at and sign up for them. Look for me inside the main the Shell Show most of the day. These people include the auditorium. Please be aware of the fact that the field trips judges, show committee chairs, vendors and the many are only for Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club members. If you exhibitors who spend the whole day at the show. Club have a non-shell club friend who would like to go on a trip, members and local restaurants donate food and money to they would have to join the club in order to go. make this possible. In order to make it all happen, it takes a person willing to coordinate the whole process. January 11 – There were only two members that expressed Sheila Nugent was the first “Kitchen Queen.” She an interest in attending Broward Shell Show with a possible started out helping make sandwiches in 2004. In 2005, she stop at the Bonnet House. If you have decided that you are took over what became known as the “Conch Café”. interested in going to the show and Bonnet House, I can “Crockpot Specials” were added to the menu in 2006 and give you the names of the others who would like to go so the food kept getting better each year. Sheila eventually you can carpool. moved to Maine. Even then, she returned to run the kitchen during the Shell Show. In 2012, Sheila’s last year in the January 29 –Day trip to Tarpon Springs to visit the historic kitchen, she produced a cookbook of her recipes and the Greek sea sponge divers’ museum and the sponge docks recipes of other club members who provided tasty dishes where they still bring in sponges. There are great Greek for the “Conch Café.” restaurants and bakeries to visit, and quaint shops where Sheila introduced Diane Zimmer to the kitchen in 2012 you can buy sponges. Are you interested on going to the and Diane took over the following year. She worked her museum if we have bus transportation? Or, are you own personal magic in the kitchen. Probably her most interested in going if we carpool? Please let me know if you memorable kitchen experience wasn’t related to food. That are interested before or at the club meeting on January th was a year when there wasn’t any water available in the 12 . kitchen and she had to take all the pots, pans and utensils home to wash them. Monday February 10 – Initially this trip was scheduled for the 5th, but the date was changed to take advantage of Connie Jump began working with Diane in 2017 and better shelling tides. This is a 4-hour shelling trip with took over the kitchen for 2018 and 2019. She did a fantastic Treasure Seekers owned by club member Tammy Everts. job and we were all disappointed to learn that she had put Tammy will take us shelling in areas that can only be her house up for sale so she could go back “up north” to be reached by boat. Last year's group found some really nice nearer to her grandchildren. shells! The normal price for this trip is $125, but Tammy is giving us a special price of $100 per person. The boat So where does that put us for 2020? leaves from Goodland at 8:00 AM. We have 8 people We have plenty of “worker bees” who are willing to help signed up now and have room for 10 more, so sign up in the kitchen, but we need someone to take over ASAP for this fun trip because when it is full, it's full. coordinating things.

February 29 - Day trip to Boca Grande and Gasparilla Where do we get our food? We buy all Island where we can shell, have lunch and visit the small the makings for sandwiches. Club Lighthouse museum on the tip of the island. Carpooling to members bring in Crockpot dishes, salads, this island is about 1 hour, 50 minutes from Sanibel. Date finger-style deserts etc. And, we do have could be changed based on weather. If you are interested a list of restaurants that have donated in this trip contact me by February 20th. food in the past. However, maybe this is the year that we will just have The other Florida shell shows are as follows: sandwiches, chips, cookies Melbourne Space Coast Shell Festival, Jan 18-19; Sarasota and beverages for lunch. Shell Show, Feb 7 - 9; St. Petersburg Shell Show, Feb 28 & Are you a “happy camper” in the 29; and, Marco Island Shell Show, March 19 - 21. We can kitchen? How about being our next carpool to any of them if there is an interest. “Kitchen King or Queen”? Contact me Please let me know as soon as possible if you are with your questions. interested in any of these field trips so I can put your name on the list(s). Thank you all, and if you have questions, just call or email to me. Remember to look for [email protected]. me at the January meeting. My contact information is: 309-696-5558 and [email protected]

5 Your Opportunity to Sponsor a Shell Show Members who have not renewed their Trophy membership by January 31st will be dropped.

Sanibel Shell Show trophies are prized by everyone Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club who wins one. They signify a degree of achievement that all Membership Renewal for 2020 exhibitors strive to reach. Our trophies are chosen for their quality as well as their appearance. Our current top-of-the- Name(s) line trophy features a “prism-effect finish.”

Both Individuals and businesses may sponsor these trophies. Sponsorship has a two-fold purpose. It pays for ______the purchase of the trophy and also supports our Grants Fund by helping to defray other Shell Show expenses. Winter address from ______to ______

When you sponsor a trophy, you are recognized in a ______number of ways. Your name as the sponsor is etched on the trophy, or you may choose to sponsor it in memory of ______an individual with their name

on the trophy i.e. “In Memory Winter Phone: ______of John Smith.” Our club has

501(c)(3) non-profit status. Cell Phone: ______There are various levels of sponsorship: King’s Crown Sponsor of Summer Address from ______to ______$125.00 lists your name in all marketing materials including ______the Shell Festival Program and in a display at the show. ______You will also receive 1 ticket for entrance to the Shell Summer Phone: ______Show. Email address: ______Heart Cockle Sponsor of (to receive Junonia newsletter) $250.00 includes your name in a special listing in all marketing materials including the  Single Membership - $20 Shell Festival Program. You will be recognized as a Heart Cockle Sponsor on a display at the Show. You will receive  Family Membership - $25 2 tickets for entrance to the Shell Show and 2 tickets to the Wednesday evening Sneak Preview of the Shell Show. Amount enclosed $______

A membership directory is available to Sanibel-Captiva Angel Wing Sponsor of $500.00 includes your name in a Shell Club members. Your street address, phone number special listing in all marketing materials including the Shell and email address is used for Shell Club communication Festival Program. You will be recognized as an Angel Wing between Shell Club members only. However, if you do not Sponsor on a display at the Show. You will receive 3 want some or any of your information included in the roster tickets for entrance to the Shell Show and 3 tickets to the please check in the box(s) below. Wednesday evening Sneak Preview of the Shell Show.

Junonia Sponsor of $1000.00 includes your name in a I do not want the information below included in the special listing in all marketing materials including the Shell directory: Festival Program. You will be recognized as a Junonia Sponsor on a display at the show. You will receive 4 tickets  Street address  Phone number(s) for entrance to the Shell Show and 4 tickets to the Wednesday evening Sneak Preview of the Shell Show.  Email address

Mail to: The Club welcomes all levels of sponsorship. If you rd Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club would like to help the Club and sponsor a trophy at the 83 P.O. Box 355 Annual Sanibel Shell Show, please contact Sponsorship Sanibel Island, FL 33957 Chair Meg Born at [email protected].

6 Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club Officers Holiday Party Is a Huge Success & The annual Holiday Party & Potluck was the best ever. Board of Directors The food was fantastic, the room was beautiful and the

presents in the gift exchange were great. About 70 shell President: Tom Annesley 734-660-3648 enthusiasts attended. [email protected] Hats off to the committee that put it together! They are Vice-President: Karen Silverstein 607-280-0974 Kim Short, Karen Silverstein, Clair Beckmann and Karen [email protected] Turner. Barb and Joe Timko, Phyllis Sharp and Secretary: Kim Short 239-312-8151 Abby DeLoache assisted them at the party. [email protected] Kim introduced us to “crackers” this year. She created Treasurer: Linda Edinburg 239-395-9426 90 of them out of toilet paper inner cores. A number of [email protected] people helped collect over 200 cores, with the “top Immediate Past Pres: Karen Turner 252-294-8046 collectors” being Joyce Ross and Linda Annesley. Kim’s [email protected] husband Sandy Gage took on the job of stuffing all 90 Members-at-Large: crackers with candy, paper crowns and fun seashell jokes. Ramona Novitski 239-250-9535 Club members changed the lyrics holiday tunes so they [email protected] took on shell themes and performed them. Carol Periard 217-415-4047 [email protected] Angie Marsland wrote new lyrics to “Jingle Bells.” Linda Sutherland 319-560-5291 [email protected] I’m dashing through the snow - with a bucket in my hand Newsletter Editor: Joyce Matthys 503-871-1082 Trying to find some shells - while singing “Jingle Bells.” [email protected] I can’t see any yet. And, feeling quite upset Grants Chair: Clair Beckmann 239-472-4524 I am a shelling nut, you see – Here’s what I came to get.

[email protected] Jingle shells, tulip shells, lightning whelks will do. Membership Chair: Ramona Novitski 239-250-9535 But finding a junonia would be just awesome, too! [email protected] (repeat) Shell Show Co-Chairs: Mary Burton 239-395-3626 And then not far away – A shell to save my day [email protected] Lying on the shore – How could I ask for more? Joyce Matthys 503-871-1082 For right before my eyes – A shell collector’s prize [email protected] There was a grand junonia of legendary size. Archives: Linda Edinburg 239-395-9426 [email protected] Jingle shells, tulip shells, lightning whelks will do. But finding a junonia would be just awesome, too! Hospitality: Karen Turner 252-294-8046 (repeat) [email protected] Field Trips: Susan Butler 309-696-5558 Dennis Sutherland (with deepest apologies to Gene Autry) [email protected] sang “Olive the Shining Mollusk” to the tune of “Rudolph.” Publicity: Karen Silverstein 607-280-0974 [email protected] You know Sundial and Sharks Eye and Nutmeg and Pear Website: Connie Jump 239-314-6524 Whelk [email protected] Cockle and King’s Crown and Murex and Jingle But do you recall the most famous mollusk of all? Shell Club Website: http://sanibelshellclub.com Olive the Shiny Mollusk had a very shiny shell Did You Know? And if you ever find one, you would even say it glows. All of the other mollusks used to laugh and call her names Did you know that you can sign up to receive email They never let poor Olive join in any mollusk games. Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say notifications of new website posts on our Club’s website? It "Olive, with your shell so bright won't you guide my sleigh is very simple. On the home page right under the Shell tonight?" Show Countdown, enter your email and click SUBSCRIBE. Then how the mollusks loved her, as they shouted out with Our webmaster Connie Jump recently posted a terrific glee “Shell Club Summary for 2019.” Check it out! Go to: "Olive the Shiny Mollusk, you'll go down in conchology" http://sanibelshellclub.com Tammy Evert assisted Karen Silverstein’s version of “Little Craft Shells to Be Sold at the Meeting Drummer Boy” by singing the rum-a-dum-dum accompaniment. Linda Edinburg has been busy sorting and bagging small craft shells and “fancy foreigners.” They will be sold at Come and hold me - pa rum pum pum pum the meeting on the 12th inside the main auditorium at the A new-found shell to see - pa rum pum pum pum A double angel wing - pa rum pum pum pum Community House. Cash or check only please. To make me want to sing - Pa rum pum pum pum 7 Rum pum pum pum Others honor it. - Pa rum pum pum, When they come.

Little beauty - Pa rum pum pum pum I am a poor shell fool - Pa rum pum pum pum The sea has gifts to give - Pa rum pum pum pum The shells that don’t now live - Pa rum pum pum pum Rum pa pum pum Shall I shell with you - Pa rum pum pum pum No, I’m not dumb.

Karen Back and Don Bachman also chose to sing “Jingle Bells.”

Strolling through the sand - with pail and scoop in hand, Looking all the while - for a great new shelling pile. Peering through the water - for treasures for the sorter, Quickly goes the day - as ‘round us sea birds play.

Oh, jingle shells, Junonia shells or a Lion’s paw we pray Out in the sun our shelling done, we’ve passed a lovely day. (Repeat)

Tammy and Karen perform “The Little Drummer Boy.”

Jackie McGonigle is ready to pop one of the 90 “crackers” Kim and Sandy made for the party.

The tables were nicely decorated and the food was great!

Happy New

(L-R) Karen Silverstein, Clair Beckmann and Barb Timko Year watch Karen and Don sing “Jingle Bells.” 8