Welcome Gary!
I know you will enjoy getting to know people on the listserv and as you keep collecting and attending COA conventions in the future. Vicky Wall, Mayodan, North Carolina
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From: "Gary Fredrickson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:54:06 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: [CONCH-L] New Member

Hi, The email I received said it is customary for newbies to give some
information about themselves. In going back at random through the archives
I can find precious few who have done so but what the heck. I can be
boring as well as anyone. Started collecting when someone at work became
my very best friend and it was what she collected. For some time I tried
to limit it to olives but of course noone ever really specializes
completely. Anyway Phyllis Grimm and I attended a few COA conventions
starting from the St louis one until the early nineties. Then she started
collecting fossils. Of course in the meantime I had kind of switched to
precolumbian pottery (thank you Royce Hubert lol). So then I added fossils
to the mix. I own a one bedroom house. Starting to get the picture? Anyway
shortly before she passed away Phyllis gave me most of her shell
collection. And unfortunately every time I look at a shell list I think
Phyl liked those especially. Of course then it finally dawned on me that
Phyl liked every family especially. Yikes. So I am now limiting myself to
margins olives cancellaria latiaxis, murex, volutes epitoneums, cones.
Well, again you get the picture. Clearly I'm a collector but not a student.
I can tell that when I check one of the many shell books I own (did I
mention I seem to collect shell books too?) I really have no grasp of the
nomenclature. And thus I tend to gravitate towards people who actually do
know something which explains my presence here. So teach on, I'll be the
sponge amongst all these gastropod people.
Gary

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