Name:   SecretAgentMan - Subject:   Muscles Date:   8/4/2017 11:27:58 AM

I collect the discarded shells and use them in some art I've been making and placing in the Lake Martin Merchantile. Theses mussels had a great article many years back in the Lake Martin Magazine. You can determine their age , much like the rings on trees. The large ones are around 100 yeas old if as big as your hand. They use to be an industry to the area and once the mussels were harvested , they collected and crushed the shells and sold to the Florida oyster farmers to feed the oysters to incoursge the growth of natural pearls. I'm fascinated by them!