My Passion Project time this past week was spent gathering information about the rarity of colors in sea and beach glass. My findings confirmed what I had already guessed, based on what we usually find on our "hunting trips" to Lake Michigan. I am also researching what businesses and/or garbage dumps may have been right on the lake over the last 100 years or so. I have a feeling that much of the glass we find was originally dumped into the lake by various factories and garbage companies. While there have been shipwrecks on Lake Michigan, I doubt many of them were quite big enough to provide this much glass on the shore! This information will be helpful because that will help me narrow down what items this glass came from. When I pick up a piece of beach glass, I always ask myself what it had been originally: a plate, a wine goblet, a medicine bottle? I want to know the history of all of my pieces!
This week, I also started thinking about a final product and how to show what I've learned. I think an infographic might be fun to make and also educational, so I started a draft of one (pictured below). I'm not sure how much information I'll be able to include under each color/section, so this may not be the final product. It's a start, though! I plan to share this information to my peers in this course, of course, but also on social media. I am a member of a couple groups with glass hunting as the shared interest. I think others with this hobby will also be interested to know where their glass may have come from. This topic is meaningful to me because it has truly brought my little family closer, giving us something to do together that we all enjoy for different reasons. It has given us more to do with my parents, as well, since they have become interested in glass hunting, too. Our interests have blossomed to include fossils, coral fragments, and bones - and our equipment now includes a full-sized and a child-sized metal detector. :) Glass hunting is a relaxing activity that can include everyone no matter what their mobility is, and is a time when we can connect with each other and to ourselves. Click HERE to see my elevator pitch!
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Jenny Lehotsky
3/29/2019 12:46:36 am
Hi Stacy,
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