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Article: OUTER BANKS SHOPS SELL UNUSUAL SLICES OF THE BEACH.(CAROLINA COAST)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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Byline: LANE DEGREGORY, STAFF WRITER
NAGS HEAD -- Six senior citizens in Trenton, N.J., now have shell sculptures sitting on their shelves.
Tiny turtles, fashioned from shells and adorned with googly eyes rimmed in round wire glasses, caught my grandmother-in-law's eye last week. We were shopping for souvenirs, hitting old haunts along the beach road, ducking in and out of doors between drizzles. She selected the thumb-size sculptures - which sold for less than a dollar each - to take home to each of her friends as mementos of her Outer Banks vacation.
``Wouldn't someone like a snow dome with the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in the center and red ...