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SEA GLASS FESTIVAL AT LEWES, DE, ON JUNE 22 AND JUNE 23, 2013 Sea Glass from the Mid-Atlantic Seashore Lewes' Annual Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival 2013 is this weekend. The Lewes Historical Society's 2012 Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival was a great success last year. Held in the Historic Complex at Second and Shipcarpenter Streets in Lewes, Delaware, it attracted over 5,000 guests. The festival is a fundraiser for the Historical Society and an annual event that local artisans and patrons look forward to each year. This year's festival on June 22 and 23, 2013, is expected to draw an even larger crowd. Over forty sea glass artists and other coastal artists participate in the annual event which features listening to keynote speakers, having sea glass shards identified by time and place of manufacture, selling jewelry, crafts, and sea glass, and enjoying beachcombing activities. Sea glass can be found all over the world, and the beaches of the northeast United States' coastline are no exception. Delaware's Atlantic seashore and its Delaware Bay shore are excellent places to collect the surf tumbled shards of glass. The most prized pieces have a salty appearing patina on all sides and corners of the glass, with no shiny surfaces in evidence. These are considered to be jewelry class pieces and are more valuable than those pieces with shiny glass showing through. The colors range from mottled clear glass through browns, greens, aquas, blues, golds, oranges, and black. The best times to look for the tumbled shards are during spring tides and during the first low tide after a storm. Test your eye for spotting sea glass on a sandy beach in the pictures below. Can you find the sea glass in each picture? There may be more than one piece in each picture!
DNREC HAS POSTED THAT THE BEACH WATER ADVISORIES FOR REHOBOTH BEACH, DELAWARE, HAVE BEEN LIFTED AS OF 2:09 PM, JUNE 5, 2013EFFECTIVE AS OF 2:09 PM, JUNE 5, 2013, DNREC HAS LIFTED THE THREE BEACH WATER ADVISORIES FROM YESTERDAY AFTERNOON'S ANNOUNCEMENT: Type: Recreational Water Advisory Type: Recreational Water Advisory Type: Recreational Water Advisory REHOBOTH BEACH WATER QUALITY ADVISORIES IN EFFECTDNREC has issued three Beach Monitoring Reports for the Rehoboth Beach monitoring stations at Rehoboth Avenue, Virginia Avenue, and Gordon's Pond effective immediately. Please see the email notifications that DNREC sent out on Tuesday afternoon, June 4, 2013, to people subscribed to their water testing alerts notifications. DNREC Beach Monitoring List <dnreclist@state.de.us> DNREC Beach Monitoring List <dnreclist@state.de.us> DNREC Beach Monitoring List <dnreclist@state.de.us> |
AuthorDr. Norene Moskalski can often be found walking the beaches of the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, collecting sea glass, weathered minerals, unusual shells, and artifacts from colonial shipwrecks. A naturalist and environmentalist by nature, and a medical diagnostician by avocation, she has a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and has held administrative and teaching positions at Penn State University and Temple University. She has spent most of her life preparing administrators and teachers to lead and teach ethically with love and respect for everyone. The settings for her novels are authentic vignettes from university campuses and places around the world she has visited. Each novel presents a variation on a theme, using literary techniques and musical innuendos to move the action forward. Her plots revolve around the unexpected: What if the most beautiful things in the world are the most dangerous? 
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