. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. anywhere, in any quantity, seems to draw the offbeat and the oddball. Add the transient nature of the waterway's denizens and the remoteness of the region it travels in North Carolina, and you have a fertile brew for oddity. Which helps explain the Belhaven Memorial Museum. I have heard about the museum for years, or I should say, I have heard about its most famous exhibit: a pair of fleas, dressed like bride and 'Do you want this?'" explains museum president Peg McKnight, "she never said
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. anywhere, in any quantity, seems to draw the offbeat and the oddball. Add the transient nature of the waterway's denizens and the remoteness of the region it travels in North Carolina, and you have a fertile brew for oddity. Which helps explain the Belhaven Memorial Museum. I have heard about the museum for years, or I should say, I have heard about its most famous exhibit: a pair of fleas, dressed like bride and 'Do you want this?'" explains museum president Peg McKnight, "she never said ; But Way said "yes" plenty, and she wound up with a world of weird stuff. It's all housed in the second-floor museum: 30,000 buttons, jars of rocks and arrowheads, stacks of old North Carolina license plates, a watch fob made from the first trans-Atlantic cable, a collection of three dozen rattles from canebrake. Buttons — 30,000 of them — are a joy to Peg McKnightof the Belhaven Memorial Museum groom and visible through a magnifying glass. After breakfast I climb the creaky wooden stairs of the brick Belhaven City Hall with no small amount of anticipation — and no small bit of snickering from Bellamy and Taylor. For most of her 92 years, Belhaven resident Eva Blount Way collected the flotsam of everyday life. Buttons, old coins, shells, kitchen implements, her own shoes — what began as a packrat's passion turned into a collection of curiosities from around the world. "If anybody ever came to her house and said, rattlesnakes she killed herself, the head of a pronghorn antelope. We wander through the mazelike exhibits, wonder- struck one moment, cackling the next. I finally find my finely dressed fleas, and through the magnifying glass I can even pick out the bride's parasol. But when I see a hand-lettered sign marked "Kitchen Artifacts," I realize that there is more to this collection than just the whimsy of an elderly lady. On ramshackle shel
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