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Article: Sea glass: Turned from trash to treasure
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2009
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DETROIT -- It may have once been part of a beer bottle. Or a
vase. Or a Milk of Magnesia container.
But after decades of being tumbled by water, after years of
having its edges softened and rounded, it sits on the beach, a
colored shard of tan or turquoise refracting the sunlight.
Once part of a whole object, it has become its own entity: sea
glass.
These pieces created by humans for function have been reclaimed
by water, tossed by the lakes and seas and given back to us as
fragments of beauty. And now as the weather warms, beachside
residents -- and tourists -- are blessed with the possibility of
days spent by the beach hunting sea glass.
But what do you look for? How do you get started? ...