The Lewes Historical Society announces the 2015 Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 at the Lewes Historic Campus at 110 Shipcarpenter Street in Lewes, Delaware. Hours are 9:00am to 4:00pm on Saturday and 9:00am to 3:00pm on Sunday. New this year, admission to the festival is $5 per person, per day. Children under 12 are free.
Last year, the Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival, attracted over 5,500 visitors. 2015 is the sixth year for this event, and it’s expected to be better than ever! It will feature more than seventy sea glass artists, joined by other coastal artists- including decoy carvers and waterfowl artists. Listen to festive live music on Saturday from 10:00am-2:00pm by steel drum player Jimmy G and Sunday 10:00am-2:00pm by musician Paul Zavinsky. Enjoy delicious food and cool treats all weekend. Bring your glass shards and bottles, as specialist Keith Fleming will be available to identify your treasures on-site on Sunday from 9:00am-3:00pm.
Also, on Saturday, June 27, FREE featured presentations will be held at St. Peters Church Hall (at 211 Mulberry Street).
New this year!- Bring the kids for a fun children’s activity “From Pirates to Politics,” to take place on Saturday, June 27 from 1:00pm-3:00pm at Midway School House #178 (at the Lewes Historic Campus). This activity will be led by Lewes Historical Society volunteers and members of The Pirates of the Delaware Bay, an official chapter of the Red Hat Society. Click here for more details.
Like collecting shells, fossils, or stones, combing shorelines for sea glass is a hobby many beachcombers enjoy. Sea Glass hobbyists often fill decorative jars with their collections and take great pleasure in sourcing out a shard's origin. Artisans craft beautiful pieces of jewelry, stained glass and other decorative treasures from sea glass.
Sea glass can be found all over the world, but the beaches of the northeast United States, California, northwest England, Mexico, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Nova Scotia, Italy and southern Spain are famous for their bounty of sea glass, bottles, bottle lips and stoppers, art glass, marbles, and pottery shards. The best times to look are during spring tides and during the first low tide after a storm.
Shards may also evidence a frosted side and a shiny side, most likely because they are pieces broken off from larger glass objects still embedded in mud, silt or clay, which are only slowly being exposed by wave action and erosion.
With greater environmental awareness, there has been a decline in naturally occurring sea glass, creating a great market for expensive and rare pieces.
The Lewes Historical Society invites the public to celebrate sea glass and coastal art on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28. For more details about the Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival or for more information on The Lewes Historical Society, contact 302-645-7670.
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