Note: More to come about the connections between wildlife and Deep River (perhaps Mondays at the Griswold Inn to see about some traditional music). This story has been updated and moved.

Who knew that threads of global maritime trade and history could be contained in a building to be explored?

And a related book that adds much to understanding Deep River, global business, human beings collecting things.

A sheet of ivory, fourteen inches wide and *fifty-two feet* long, sawn from a single tusk, was sent by Julius Pratt and Company of Meriden, #Connecticut (one of the forerunners of Pratt, Read), in 1851 to the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London’s Hyde Park.”

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