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Article: SEA GLASS LOVERS CLING TO RARE FINDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2003
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YARMOUTH - The downside of a cleaner environment is found in the
empty palms of tourists on the long stretches of Cape Cod beaches:
There is hardly any sea glass, those muted shards rubbed smooth by
endless waves.
Litter laws and the demise of glass containers have forced lovers
of the opaque slivers tumbled for generations in the ocean to resort
to unusual means in their quest for the frosted bits of colored
glass.
One Massachusetts jewelry maker recently sent out a plea for sea
glass in the Cape Cod Times. Two years ago, a Provincetown boat
captain refused to take a woman out to sea to dump bottles overboard
to seed the sea for future beachcombers.
"I know of a number of beachgoers who ...