Chesapeake Bay Sea Glass

by Sue
(Carroll County, MD)

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In my local newspaper today (1/17/12) there was an article about a young girl who collects sea glass and makes things with it. 

She collects her sea glass mainly at Deal Island on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the Chesapeake Bay (south of the bay bridge).  

It even stated that this "secret" treasure of a place was announced on the Martha Stewart show so many people go there to collect sea glass, shards of pottery, pipe stems and other interesting finds. 

It may be worth the trip.

Comment from David at Odyssey:

Thanks for the heads up, Sue! Quite a bit of the sea glass that Lin has collected over the years comes from the shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, home of Lin's mother Win; in fact, the orange piece shown on our Home Page and other pages was found there.

You can see some of this Chesapeake sea glass for sale on this site, for example: http://www.odysseyseaglass.com/green-craft-sea-glass.html

Compared to more exposed coastline, much of the sea glass found on the Chesapeake is not well-tumbled on frosted. But there definitely are treasures there!

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