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The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia Barnett
The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia Barnett













The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia Barnett

“I never knew the importance of the lightning whelk’s life and afterlife for Native American people,” she recalls. In one astounding instance, a burial featuring 20,000 beads fashioned from lightning whelk shells was found at the great mound city of Cahokia, outside present day St. Norton & Company, 2021), that she understood the full significance of the whelk, which was used by Native Americans of the Gulf Coast for centuries for making food, tools and ceremonial objects, as well as for trading to other indigenous groups throughout the Southeast. But it was not until she began researching her newest book, “The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans” (W.W.

The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia Barnett

For years, a specimen she and her husband found at Cedar Key has topped her family’s Christmas tree. When environmental journalist Cynthia Barnett was growing up in Florida, one of her favorite seashells was the lightning whelk, an impressively large spiral with chocolatey stripes that is a common find on Gulf beaches. Barnett at the keyboard in her study in Gainesville, where she is also Environmental Journalist in Residence at the University of Florida. Photo by Betsy Hansen.















The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia Barnett