From the March 6th WWAY 3 ABC "Students spent spring break sorting Civil War shipwreck artifacts" by Marissa Jasek.
They came from East Carolina and UNC-Wilmington universities this past week and spent three days, Monday-Wednesday, sorting through artifacts from the blockade-runner Modern Greece which was sunk 150 years ago in 1862. More than 1,1000 artifacts were removed from the wreck on the 100th anniversary of its sinking in 1962.
Many of them are just now being conserved, having spent the last 50 years in tanks of water.
They are not doing this for credit, either. It is strictly volunteer. As of March 6th, they had already catalogued a couple hundred items.
ECU grad student Nicole Wittig said, "No key West for us! We are all volunteering. This is the second year for us coming down during our spring break for a couple days."
I Sure Would Have Liked to Have Been there with Them. Where Do I Volunteer? --Old B-Runner
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