Vintage glass reflect Pine Barrens past

[dogg57]

Perhaps alchemist is the best word for artist, writer, and musician Paul Evans Pedersen Jr.
After all, this is a man who digs up discarded chunks of vintage South Jersey glass and transforms them into "Pine Barrens Diamonds."
Pieces of jewelry featuring his man-made gems will be displayed next Sunday at Lines on the Pines, an artists' showcase in Hammonton. The annual event features about 50 local residents, working in a variety of media, who are inspired by the distinctive history, landscape, and culture of the Pinelands.
The diamonds "started with a metal detector about 25 years ago," says Pedersen, 57. He writes music, prose, and poetry when not turning raw material someone threw away a century ago into objects to treasure.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/n...vintage_glass_reflect_Pine_Barrens__past.html

 

[Boyd]

I thought it was illegal to remove artifacts from state property...

 

[CurMUDgeon]

"On some of them you can feel the glassblower's thumbprint, from where he pulled [the bottle] off the stick," he notes. "Sometimes you can see an air bubble - that's his breath - in the glass."
He may be an artist but from these quotes excerpted from the linked article he doesn't know a thing about glassblowing!