Letter to the Old Mermaids

Old Mermaid Sanctuaries are everywhere! They're found in the most amazing and unusual places. We received a letter from just such a place:

"I've told my 4-year-old daughter about the Old Mermaids. This year I decided to plant our first vegetable garden, so we spent the majority of every day in spring and early summer ripping up the grass in our backyard. During this excavation, we came across a stone with a shell imprint on it as well as an actual shell. It was a small, curved, conical shell like those you'd hear the ocean in but in miniature. My daughter and I begin talking about how that shell got into our yard (probably a snail shell), and she was incredibly intrigued by the thought that maybe the ocean had once covered Ohio.

"The shells interior was filled with dirt, but my daughter put it to her ear and insisted that she could hear the ocean in it. After she'd played with it for awhile, she said that she could hear a voice in the shell. I asked her what it was saying. She leaned in close to me and whispered, 'she sells seashells by the seashore.' Lots of laughter ensued."

All of us at the Old Mermaid Sanctuary enjoyed hearing from Brandi and her daughter very much! You made our day! Thank you, thank you!

Photograph by Brandi, too!