Did you know there is a small museum in Nags Head, North Carolina housing hundreds of beachcombed treasures collected by one woman over 50 years of daily beach walks?
Sea glass, old toys, coins, glass bottles, military gear, you name it she found it and, more importantly, saved it. Read more about the Outer Banks Beachcomber Museum here!
NAGS HEAD – Never again will there be a beachcomber’s haul on the Outer Banks – or anywhere – to match what Nellie Myrtle Pridgen collected in a lifetime that straddled World War II and the banks’ nascent tourism industry. Her astonishing collection has been housed in a small museum inside the Mattie Midgette Store, where she had lived, but the building is rarely open to the public. more at coastalreview.org
