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About Green Waves Glass
Home to me has always been Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan. Growing up, we moved all the time but spent summers at the dunes. Graduating from Michigan State University with a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Interpretation, I went on to work as a seasonal Park Ranger for the National Park Service. I met my husband in the N.P.S. and we decided to quit the gypsy life and make our home in Michigan. I spent the next eleven years teaching environmental education at the Ebersole Environmental Center and having four children.
After my special needs daughter was born, I left my job to be home. Camping as a family we collected polished glass on many Great Lake’s beaches. Christmas time was spent visiting my family in Florida and combing Atlantic beaches.
Looking for glass makes you notice other things in nature. We have found three “message in a bottle,” plus saved many sea stars, sea horses and sand dollars stranded by changing tides. Manatees, stingrays and dolphins have swam by while snorkeling and strolling the beach. Watching a Bald Eagle in Michigan or a Pelican in Florida dive for a fish makes the day special, even if you find no glass. Fisherman reeling in a shark, a dead sea turtle, or a sick loon dieing on the beach make you realize the importance of keeping our beaches clean.
Two of my sons work summers at a canoe and kayak livery, working outside. Dan, my oldest, asked me to make a necklace from glass we had found. After his two brothers, and numerous friends put in their requests, Green Waves Glass was born. Our three boys now spend their time on the water, instead of the beaches, but my daughter never tires of finding treasures on the beach. May you enjoy your treasure recycled by nature and time, into one of a kind art.
Nancy Flynn Koerber
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Each one of a kind necklace is displayed simply to accentuate the beauty, shape, and color of the sea glass.
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