The Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club, Inc.

The Junonia February 2019

Meeting To Be One Week Early – February 3 Please feel free to contact any of our Board members or committee chairs if you have any questions about our At the Sanibel Community House club or our club activities. We look forward to sharing our

Because of more delays in the renovation at The enthusiasm about shells with you.

Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and because the We welcome the following new members: Sanibel Community House was already booked for our Lois Berninger, Cincinnati OH & Fort Myers usual meeting date, we have had to move our February rd Kathleen Helga, Rockford IL & Sanibel meeting up one week to Sunday the 3 . Cindy Peterson, Chapin SC & Fort Myers Eric Milbrandt, Marine Laboratory Directory at the Chris & Kristi Sammet, Willoughby Hills OH & Sanibel Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, will be the guest Anne & Don Suss, Downingtown PA & Sanibel speaker at this meeting. The title of his presentation is Red The Charles Tacito Family, Medford MA & Sanibel Tide Monitoring and Research at the SCCF Marine Laboratory. The Red Tide event that started in Nov. 2017 reached its peak during July The President’s Corner and August of 2018. This by Tom Annesley algae bloom by a marine dinoflagellate will be Welcome to February 2019, my favorite time to watch explained and the ecological the Weather Channel from sunny Florida. The snowbirds consequences to fish and and visitors have returned as evidenced by the more than biodiversity will be 85 people who attended our January discussed. The presentation meeting. will highlight the research In January we heard about the and monitoring being need to improve the quality of our conducted at the SCCF waters and the role that oysters (and Marine Laboratory. The hockey sticks) play in this process. laboratory was given a The topic of water quality has been on $4,000.00 grant from the the minds of many as a result of the Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club red tide and green algae crises during in 2018. 2018. Interestingly, while many The Silent Auction will people have heard of the red tide, a begin at 1:45 with the meeting beginning at 2:15. PLEASE surprising number have no idea what red tide is, what NOTE – THE DOORS TO THE BUILDING WILL NOT impact it has, and what long-term consequences may OPEN FOR MEMBERS OR THE PUBLIC BEFORE 1:45!!! result. When I am working at the Bailey Matthews Shell Only those people setting up for the meeting will be allowed Museum I receive many questions on this very topic, even in the building prior to that time. At this time, no one has from avid shellers volunteered to bring snacks for this meeting or for the next So, on the same theme as our January meeting, we two months. We like to have four people bring snacks at have asked Eric Milbrandt from the SCCF Marine each meeting so that it doesn’t put the burden on one or Laboratory to come and educate us about the red tide two people. If you can bring a snack, please contact Karen monitoring and research being done at the Marine Turner by phone 252-294-8046 or via email at Laboratory. This last fall the Shell Club provided a grant to [email protected]. If we do not hear from anyone, continue the SCCF’s remote operating vehicle studies in there will not be any snacks at this meeting. the gulf, which include monitoring the health of molluscs and other sea life. Eric will introduce us to the purpose and Welcome New Members goals of the studies and will come back again in the future to tell us more about their results. There is more about this Welcome, new Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club members! program elsewhere in the February Junonia, so be sure to We hope you will be able to join us at our October through look for it. April monthly meetings. And don’t forget that we encourage show-and-tell at our One of the benefits of belonging to the Shell Club is monthly meetings of interesting shells and other marine life that you may visit the Shell Museum without charge. This is that you have found, purchased, inherited, or obtained by because of the financial support the Sanibel-Captiva Shell any means (we do not judge). Club gives the Museum. You will also receive a 20% See you on February 3 at the Sanibel Community discount on any purchases you make at the Museum Store. House! 1 “Rules of the Game” – The Silent Auction need to keep the white copy for our records and you can keep the yellow copy. by Joyce Matthys The February auction will not be quite as large as For those of you who do not have email and receive a January’s. This is because I had all the shell cases stored printed copy of The Junonia, you missed the email in and under my little cottage/park model and I needed to announcement that the January silent auction brought in reclaim their space. There will be a number of spondylus in over $1,400.00. There are a couple of expenses that will be the auction and some paper nautiluses, Argonauta nodosa. deducted, such as the cost of printing the self-carboning bid The items pictured below will be included in the items sheets, but the auction will still net over $1,300.00. This offered in the auction. The Florida Horse Conch, Triplofusus was beyond our expectations. The money raised from the giganteus measures 415 mm. silent auctions has been ear-marked for Mollusks on the Move, The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum’s outreach program that takes shells and live mollusks to schools that are not able to come to the museum, the Golisano Children's Hospital, and local events. Last month a bit of bedlam prevailed when people were paying for the items they won in the silent auction. In one case, the winning bidder did not get his shell. For this reason, we thought it would be best to spell out the rules of the game for you. Please note that the bid sheets are self-carboning. Some people scribbled on the back of the bottom sheet because their pen was not working correctly and this obliterated the writing on the carbon copy. If a pen doesn’t work when you try to write your bid, tell someone who is helping with the auction. They will get you a new pen.

This is how the silent auction will work.

• The auction will be from 1:45 to 2:15 and will resume for a few last-minute bids after the speaker. • At the end of the auction, the white top sheet of the bid forms will be collected by a committee member and taken to where you will pay for your winning items. • The committee will sort all the sheets. If you won more than one item, your sheets will be combined to come up with the total amount you owe. • You will pay for your winning bid items after the meeting. No item can be paid for before the end of the meeting.

YOU MUST follow this check-out procedure.

• Go to the “check-out table” to pay for your shell(s). Do not go to the tables where the auction items are located before you have paid for them. • There will be three lines at the table. If your name begins with “A” you would go to the first line, “L” would most likely be the second line and “R” the last line. • When you pay for your shells (by check or cash), you will be given the white copy of the bid sheet marked paid. The yellow carbon copy will be with the bid item. • The bid items will be on the tables in numerical order. • If you have winning bids on more than one table, you with be going to more than one table. • Take the white paid bid sheet(s) to the auction table(s) and present them to the committee person at that table. They will match your winning bid on the white copy to the yellow carbon copy that is with your bid item. They

2 Seeking Shell Show Kitchen Fund Donations The scheduled dates are Friday, February 15 and Saturday February 16. The time is the same – we’ll start at by Connie Jump 10:00 am. Feel free to bring a lunch, and there is even a refrigerator to keep drinks cold. For those of you who were We are graciously accepting monetary donations for at our meeting at Sanibel Community House in January, the Shell Show kitchen fund. Members have been please note that these dates are different from the dates generous in the past, and I’m hoping for the same this year. which were announced that day. There are a number of volunteers, exhibitors, judges, I hope these days will work as well for us as have our vendors, and authors who spend the whole day at the Shell Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the past. If you have any Show. It is difficult for them to leave the show to have lunch questions, please call me at 239-395-9426 or email to or a coffee break because of the island crowds and traffic. [email protected] Being able to provide coffee, water, lunch and snacks I look forward to sharing the camaraderie with many of during the show is one way we can show our appreciation you! We always have fun. for their hard work. We had very little response for food donations from Coming Field Trips restaurants last year, and this year they are struggling even by Susi Butler, Field Trip Chair more. Last year, I spent over $900.00 on groceries, beverages, and paper goods for the kitchen. In order to Hello fellow shell-lovers! Here are our upcoming field trips: prepare for the coming show, we’ll pass the hat at the Tuesday, February 12 - Treasure Seekers Shell Trip February 3rd Shell Club meeting. This will be the last We will be going to Kice Island for 3 blissful hours of meeting before the Shell Show. We will also have donation shelling! Tammy's boats have bathrooms and provide jars at the kitchen serving line during the Show. So many, snacks, water and shell bags! many thanks in advance for contributing. We will meet at a dock south of Naples at 8:30 a.m. and be back by 12:30. The cost is $125 per person. We Common SW Florida Shells Needed for COA have room for three more people on the first boat. She has two boats with room for six people on each boat. Please let Bob and Alice Pace (members of Sanibel Shell Club, me know ASAP if you'd like to go on this fun trip! but with a home club of Broward) have asked that we help March 17 & 18 - Gainesville Natural History Museum provide gem quality shells for them to sell at the private tour and fossil dig. Conchologists of America Meeting to be held on Captiva in The trip is full, but we do have a waiting list! June. The shells will be sold to raise funds for the COA Stops Along the Way (interesting shell places that are not educational fund. big enough for a field trip!) Bonnet House in Ft. Gem quality means both halves of a bivalve, or a Lauderdale - One of my favorite places in the Ft. perfect protoconch (tip) and , and vibrant color (not worn Lauderdale area is the Bonnet House. It was owned by an off) for gastropods. artsy, wealthy couple in the 1920's. It's a big mansion along PLEASE bring the shells to any coming club meeting. the Ocean Drive and she loved shells. She encrusted some Clair Beckmann is collecting them for the Pace’s. Contact of the doorways with them, made flower arrangements out Clair via email at [email protected] or call her at of shells and even had a separate building with a bamboo 239-472-4524. She will accumulate them and get them to bar and small shell museum. the Pace's. This is a really interesting estate! It is open Tues. Bob and Alice are very grateful for our help because through Sun. from 9:00 – 4:00. If you are interested in this year the COA shell sales table will only have shells learning more, go to the Bonnet House website: from this area of Southwest Florida. bonnethouse.org Happy Shelling! Shell Bagging Dates New Grants Committee Chair Announced We now have a place to bag the shells that we give away at our gate. We will be meeting in Heron Hall at the Upon the resignation of Dick Willis, President Tom Congregational United Church of Christ at 2050 Annesley, has appointed Clair Beckmann the new Grants Periwinkle Way, across from Periwinkle Place shopping Committee Chair. Clair and Carol Periard have worked to area. Heron Hall is on the ground floor straight ahead from develop a new set of guidelines for our grants and the parking lot, on the other side of the fountain. scholarship program. Upon the approval of the proposed For those of you who are new to the club this year, guidelines, a Grants Committee will be appointed. If you shell bagging is when we fill 4x4 bags with shells that we would like to serve on this committee, please contact Tom, give as a “thank-you” to those who donate $5 to enter the [email protected] or Clair at [email protected]. shell show. We work on the assembly line basis, and have Last year the Shell Club gave out $29,000.00 in grants both standing and sitting chores. Some folks will sort shells and scholarships. The amount that is given out each year by type, some will fill the baggies, and some will insert the depends on the profit of the annual Shell Show. One paper thank-you slips and seal the bags. Our only method hundred percent of the Shell Show profit is given out in the of “paying” for your work is to encourage you to put a few form of grants and scholarships each year. shells that you admire into your pocket. 3 The Reward Can Be Great For further information, visit the website at Rink2Reef.com, or email Mike at [email protected] What makes you feel good? Maybe it’s finding a five- Leigh Gay of Bailey Matthews National Shell Museum dollar bill in the pocket of a jacket you haven’t worn in a updated us on the Mollusks on the Move program. The while. Maybe it’s finding a shell in pristine condition in a pile staff and volunteers take the van (funded in part by the of rubble on the beach. OR, maybe it’s knowing that you Shell Club) and live mollusks to schools in Lee and Collier have done your part to help your Shell Club when it is Counties. Most of the children who benefit from the needed most. And, we really do need your help with the program have never been to the beach or picked up a shell! coming Shell Show. It is the only fundraiser of the year. In 2018 the program reached 3,176 kids from K-5 Yes, we know it is only the end of January and the during 43 trips. In addition, there were twelve community show is not until March, but the Sanibel Shell Festival is the events, including visits to Golisano Children's Hospital, and biggest event on the island all winter and it takes a lot of encounters with mentally challenged adults. planning. Live Auction - Two very impressive shells were Quite a few members have filled out the volunteer form auctioned: a King Helmet complete with which that we sent out to the membership, but we have many, sold for $60, and an Atlantic Triton which brought in $70. many time slots to fill. In the past, the work shifts ranged The total auction income was $1,418.50. from three to four hours. A couple of years ago, we shortened these shifts to two hours. We really do need all Business Meeting our club members to work two shifts to pull off this huge event. Tom Annesley recognized new members and guests. We have attached the Shell Show Volunteer form to He thanked those who brought refreshments, and others this email. Please look at it, and decide where you would who helped with the silent and live auctions. Tom announced that next month's meeting will be like to help. Knowing that it is not “written in blood,” call me, rd Joyce Matthys, at 503-871-1082 or email me at switched to the first Sunday: February 3 , and will be held [email protected] and let me know where and at Sanibel Community House, commencing at 1:45 p.m. when you think you can help. We have about 200 2-hour Eric Milbrandt of SCCF Marine Lab will speak on red tide, slots to fill. It will make you feel good – guaranteed! algae blooms and dead zones. Consent of officer & community reports: No dissention. Joyce Matthys requested members to consider 2020 Shell Festival T-shirt Contest volunteering at this year's Show, and to fill out the provided

We are already looking ahead to the 2020 Sanibel Shell form. Festival. It has been suggested that we have another Shell Robin Harris reminded members about the Shell and Garden tour to be held at the home she shares with Rick Festival t-shirt contest. This contest is open to club th members and the general public. The final design should Batt. Openings are available on Saturday February 9 at 1 include local shells and must be “camera ready.” If you or p.m. Interested participants were requested to reserve their anyone you know is interested in entering a design, have spots by contacting Robin or Rick. them send it to the Shell Committee via Joyce Matthys at Linda Edinburg announced that shell bagging for the [email protected]. Shell Show will take place at Sanibel Congregational UCC on Monday January 28 and Tuesday January 29, beginning at 10 a.m. [These dates were later changed.] Meet in Minutes of the January 13 Meeting Heron Hall downstairs, and bring your lunch.

Submitted by Secretary Kim Short Tom Annesley presented the new Club Bylaws to the membership and explained the changes via a powerpoint The meeting was preceded at 1:45 p.m. with presentation. Members who made suggestions for altered refreshments, and a silent auction consisting of a large wording were asked to email Tom with suggested changes number of shells and display cases. and rationale so that the Board might consider them. The meeting was called to order at 2:15 p.m. by Karen Turner reminded the group that an order for golf President Tom Annesley. Eighty-nine people were in shirts and hats will be submitted this week with product attendance. arriving by the end of January. The guest speaker was Dr. Mike Parsons, of Florida Karen Turner also asked for volunteers to bring snacks Gulf Coast University. He is the Director of the Vester Field to the February, March and April meetings. Station, and Chair of their Rink2Reef program which uses Door prizes were awarded. broken carbon-composite hockey sticks to build artificial Instructions were given about paying for and collecting oyster reef structures. As the oysters grow, they adhere silent auction items. themselves to the structures. Each oyster does its part for The meeting adjourned at 3:45 p.m. clean water by filtering 50 gallons of water per day! The goals of the program are: The 2018 Shell Club Financial Report • To build more habitat is attached to the same email that • Deploy habitats • Foster an Oyster Steward Program brought you this newsletter.

4 Shell of the Month by Dr. Rick Batt Sanibel Shell Club

Turbo (Lunatica) marmoratus Linnaeus, 1758 (Green Turban)

The Green Turban ( marmoratus Linnaeus, 1758) is the largest in the family , a large family of Tropical to Subtropical snails that have an usually thick top-shaped shell made of aragonite (nacre). The shell’s The Green Turban has long been commercially nearly circular can be closed off with a heavy important. Early monarchs in Scandinavia had these shells calcareous operculum. The has an oval foot that is mounted in silver and studded with gems for royal drinking squared in the front, and the head has a veil between two cups. The very thick layer of nacre (aragonite) has been long tentacles with eyes on short stalks at their base. The one of the major sources of the “mother of pearl” cut into radula is well-developed, and is used to graze on marine buttons, ornaments, and inlay material for furniture and algae. jewelry. The large, heavy operculum has been used as a The Green Turban inhabits Tropical reef areas from the paper-weight. The meat of the animal is important in the east coast of Africa across to the western Pacific Ocean, diet of many fishermen throughout its range, and some where it is found in the Philippines as well as Okinawa, Japanese chefs cut it up when making chop suey. The northern Australia, and as far east as Fiji. It is often found Green Turban was once common, but over-exploitation has on rubble bottoms at depths ranging from about 4 to 20 put a toll on its populations, so programs have begun to meters (13 to 66 feet). reintroduce it and increase its numbers. The heavy shell of a Green Turban has a short spire of There is one other species of Turban Shell that can relatively few whorls. The body is massive, with an rival Turbo marmoratus in size. Turbo (Dinassovica) angular shoulder that usually bears a nodose keel. jourdani Kiener, 1839 (Jourdan’s Turban) inhabits more Between the shoulder and the suture this whorl is flattened; temperate waters along the rocky coasts of southern and the rest of the is more rounded but often bears a western Australia. The shell has a moderately high spire of second, weaker keel. The color is typically a dull grayish several rounded, nearly smooth whorls separated by green with spiral bands usually marked with white and impressed sutures. The color is reddish brown with a white brown. The large aperture is pearly white, and the heavy, aperture. Shells of this species are typically between about shelly operculum is convex and smooth on the outside and 75 mm and 230 mm (3 to 9 inches) in size, but specimens flat with a spiral horny later on the inner surface. A typical as large as 252 mm (nearly 10 inches) have been reported. Green Turban shell may be about 180 mm (about 7 inches) Two specimens of Turbo jourdani are shown in the next in size, but specimens can range from less than 100 mm (4 picture: 160 mm (6.2 inches) from off Fremantle, Western inches) to more than 250 mm (10 inches). Australia; and 252 mm (nearly 10 inches) from Augusta in The first picture shows a few specimens of Turbo southwestern Australia. marmoratus in my collection (US quarter for scale): 172 mm (6.8 inches) from Luzon, Philippines; 159 mm (about 6 inches) from Zanzibar, Africa; and (below) a 43 mm (1.7 inch) baby shell from Okinawa. The second picture shows two views of an unusually large specimen (241 mm or 9.5 inches) from the Philippines.

Two other, smaller species of Turban, formerly placed with Turbo jourdani in the subgenus Disassovica, are now placed with Turbo marmoratus in the subgenus Lunatica. Turbo imperialis Gmelin, 1791 (Imperial Turban) lives in Tropical waters from the east coast of Africa and Madagascar to Mauritius, and is typically between 50 and 125 mm (2 to 5 inches) in size. Turbo militaris Reeve, 1848 (Military Turban) is a more Temperate-water species from eastern and southeastern Australia and is usually between

5 50 and 100 mm (2 to 4 inches) in size. The final picture delightful children’s books, Scuba Zak Meets Thaddeus the shows: Turbo imperialis from southern Madagascar Barracuda and Scuba Zak Searches for Thaddeus. (130 mm or 5.1 inches); and two specimens of Turbo militaris from New South Wales, Australia (46.5 mm and Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club Officers and Board 113 mm: 1.8 inches and 4.4 inches). of Directors

President: Tom Annesley 734-660-3648 [email protected] Vice-President: Vacant at this time Secretary: Kim Short 239-312-8151 [email protected] Treasurer: Linda Edinburg 239-395-9426 [email protected] Immediate Past Pres: Karen Turner 252-294-8046 [email protected] Members-at-Large: Ramona Novitski 239-250-9535 [email protected] Connie Jump 239-314-6524 Meet the Authors [email protected] Carol Periard 217-415-4047 Helping to kick off the Sanibel Shell Show Thursday [email protected] th morning, March 7 , are Shell Club member Anne Joffe and Newsletter Editor: Joyce Matthys 503-871-1082 Harlan Wittkopf. Anne will be signing her popular shell [email protected] crafting book, ShellCrafting, Vol. 2. Mr. Wittkopf will be Grants Chair: Clair Beckmann 239-472-4524 signing copies of his bestselling books, The Sanibel Kaleidoscope, Beach Treasures of the Gulf Coast [email protected] (coauthored with Peter Dance), and his children's book, Membership Chair: Ramona Novitski 239-250-9535 Alphie Finds the Seashell Alphabet, along with illustrator [email protected] Ken Vinton. Shell Show Co-Chairs: Thursday afternoon the Authors’ Table is pleased to Mary Burton 239-395-3626 welcome back Hatsue Iimuro, the author of a stunning, four- [email protected] color book on sailors’ valentines, and Karen Bartlett, the Joyce Matthys 503-871-1082 author of the popular Mostly Kids’ Guides series, including [email protected] The (Mostly) Kids’ Guide to Sanibel and Captiva Islands. Archives: Linda Edinburg 239-395-9426 The second morning of the Show, March 8th, the [email protected] Authors’ Table will feature Ron Base, the author of the Hospitality: Karen Turner 252-294-8046 bestselling Sanibel Sunset Detective series, and Pete Krull, [email protected] the coauthor of Liguus: The Flamboyant Tree Snails, the Field Trips: Susan Butler 309-696-5558 first book to cover all named Liguus (tree snails) from Cuba, [email protected] Florida, and Hispaniola, which includes hundreds of Publicity: Karen Silverstein 607-280-0974 dazzling color photos. [email protected] Friday afternoon, two local favorites, John Mills, the Website: Connie Jump 239-314-6524 author of the Pine Island Sound Mystery series, and Bev [email protected] Dolezal, the author of Seashell Poems and Reflections to

Soothe the Soul, will be signing their books at the Authors’ Shell Club Website: http://sanibelshellclub.com Table. On Saturday, March 9th, naturalists Blair and Dawn Witherington will be signing copies of their bestselling books, Florida’s Living Beaches: A Beachcomber’s Guide, Florida’s Seashells, and Our Sea Turtles at the Authors’ Table. Also at the Authors’ Table the morning of March 9th is another Sanibel Shell Club member and local author Jennifer L. Schiff. Jennifer will be signing copies of her bestselling Sanibel Island Mystery series, including A Shell of a Problem, which takes place at the Sanibel Shell Show. That afternoon, Alice Cypress will be signing copies of her

6 82nd Annual Shell Show Judges Like her husband, Linda has served as President, Vice President, and Secretary of the Conchologists of America. Dave Green is one half of a husband and wife team She is also a member of the Houston Conchology Society, that is traveling to Sanibel from Houston, Texas to judge the Sea Shell Searchers of Brazoria County, Astronaut Trail our Shell Show this year. Dave and his wife Linda each Shell Club, Sarasota Shell Club, and the San Diego Shell have their own nitch in the “shell world.” Dave will be Club. judging the Scientific Division, and Linda will be judging the Artistic Division. Sanibel Shell Club member, Duane Kauffmann grew up on Dave has been involved in the study of conchology and a small dairy farm in the middle of Illinois, graduated from malacology for over 45 years as a Goshen College, and completed a Ph. D. in social collector of mollusks, and as an psychology at the University then of Illinois. He taught at exhibitor in shell shows. Like and retired from Goshen most collectors, he started his College. There he had the interest in shells by collecting a good fortune to become wide variety of families, but with friends with two biologist time, he has concentrated on faculty colleagues who had cowries, and today he just started a marine biology collects cones, abalone, and program in which he became olives from around the world. involved and ultimately added Dave has won numerous major to his teaching awards in Florida and Texas shell responsibilities. Fascinated shows, including several DuPont, Conchologist of America, by the tiny snails found in a Shell of the Show, and Educational Awards, as well as a clump of algae, Duane has variety of other shell show awards. He has served as a focused on finding, scientific judge at numerous shell shows in Florida and photographing, and identifying very small species. He has Texas. recently completed a draft of an identification guide to some Both Dave is a member of the Conchologists of 150 micro species from western Florida. He is an active America, where he has served as President, Vice snowbird member of the Sarasota Shell Club, coordinates President, and Secretary. He is also a member of the the activities at the “club table” at the Sarasota Shell Show, Houston Conchology Society, the Sea Shell Searchers of and has exhibited miniature shells at several shell shows. Brazoria County, Astronaut Trail Shell Club, Sarasota Shell Club, and the San Diego Shell Club. Marci Chamberlain, always an artist in different mediums, They live in Houston, Texas, and Dave retired from got her Master’s Degree from the University of BHP Billiton Petroleum in 2011 where he was in charge of Massachusetts, and worked in engineering recruitment for the corporate headquarters the advertising world until she engineering teams, deepwater Gulf of Mexico exploration started her own company in and operations, and various offshore deepwater projects graphic art. After selling the involving drilling and production of oil and gas in Indonesia, company, she decided to devote Australia, West Africa and the United Kingdom. Dave now her time to Victorian shell work. serves as a consultant to large oil and gas companies Marci fell in love with shell involved in deepwater exploration. He holds a Bachelor’s collecting when she had a Degree and a Master’s Degree, plus post Masters work summer cottage on Cape Cod towards his PhD. back in the 1980’s. After she saw her first sailor’s valentine, Linda Green grew up in Cleveland and fell in love with she said she was hooked. She shells when she moved to the Orlando area in 1982. Her started researching the history of valentines and attention to detail when judging started to amass an extensive collection of large and small probably stems from her seashells. mathamatics background. She Her crafts have been shown in several venues in received a Bachelor’s degree in Rockport and Newburyport, MA, as well as here in Florida. math from Kent State Sandra Bullock and Adam Sandler have purchased her University, a Master’s degree work. from Southern Illinois University For the last 11 years, Marci and her husband Joe have and than went on to become a shared their time between Salem, NH and Palm Beach computer programer. County. She joined the Broward Shell Club in 2013 and has Linda has judged shells been honored with the “Best of Show” trophy four of those shows throughout Florida. She years. has won many awards at shell shows for her magnificient shell themed quilts.

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