North Carolina Shell Show 20-21 September 2014

摘要

The North Carolina Shell show is held in Wilmington, North Carolina, a beautiful riverside city familiar to the COA members who attended this year's convention. Vicky Wall won the COA Award at this year's show with an exhibit titled "Marveling at Mollusks." Her display covered 28 feet in 14 cases and showed 14 different aspects of mollusks, such as: venomous cone shells, shells with pearls, shells as inspiration, right- and left-handed shells, edible mollusks, etc. Almost 550 people attended the show and were able to enjoy Vicky's artistic and educational exhibit. John Timmerman was the shell show chairman and Charlotte Thorpe and Alan Gettleman were the show judges. Other winners included Tom Grace with the DuPont Trophy, Brady Semmel with the Hugh Porter Trophy, Doug Wolfe with Arctomelon tamikoae (Kosuge, 1970) as the shell of the show (any source), and Tom Grace with Conus amphiuragus Dall, 1889, as the shell of the show (self-collected). Scientific exhibits at the show covered more than 180 feet of display space.