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Date: | Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:25:24 -0500 |
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When considering the youngest shell collectors you would have to include the
school children of Tortola in the BVI. But I don't know if you would call
them "collectors" in the strictest sense, because they live with the shells
day by day--even in school.
When I visited one of the rural schools there (albeit this was 15 years
ago), each child had a small pile of shells on the table in front of him--or
her. Why? They were learning addition and subtraction using...what else but
seashells. I have some prized photographs of the kids with their shells. I
doubt if they have replaced them with computers yet.
I brought home from Tortola quite an assortment of limpets, olives, conchs,
bleeeding tooths (teeth?), flamingo tongues, astartes, cowries and others.
A wonderful time, a beautiful spot.
sj
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