http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/12/fossils-of-the-chesapeake/ A Culture Blog Thu, 23 May 2013 20:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/12/fossils-of-the-chesapeake/#comment-38529 Banished To A Pompous Land Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:33:31 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=28714#comment-38529 Don’t forget Virginia’s own state fossil, Chesapecten jeffersonius. Its a fossil scallop named for both the Chesapeake Bay and Thomas Jefferson.

]]> http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/12/fossils-of-the-chesapeake/#comment-38523 Gaw Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:41:21 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=28714#comment-38523 I’d like to think Frank was briefly possessed by the spirit of Vera/Vernon, whose desire to dance before an audience found peculiarly English expression.

]]> http://thedabbler.co.uk/2012/12/fossils-of-the-chesapeake/#comment-38461 Waldonymous Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:37:28 +0000 http://thedabbler.co.uk/?p=28714#comment-38461 If the creature in the photograph is Vera, her massive hands and wrists suggest that she might originally have been named Vernon.

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