"finders keepers, losers weepers",
photographs Peggy Cleveland, and it appears it still is, if you visit the several miles or so of the Lincoln City, Oregon's beaches,
the “Finders Keepers” project was started in 1999 by a local artist who wanted to use glass floats to celebrate the new millennium, the Lincoln City, Oregon, government agreed to this project and has been running it for more than 20 years now,
photograph Explore Lincoln City, the project encourages artists and enthusiasts to visit the beaches in the area to search for artisan glass floats, the colorful floats were inspired by the Japanese fishing floats that washed up on the Oregon Coast, to learn more about Japanese fishing floats, visit the North Lincoln County Historical Museum, which has a large exhibit featuring the collection of Jim Watson who donated it to the museum, an estimated number of over 3,000 floats are hidden in the city’s beaches year-round, you can learn more about the project here, what a neat way to spend a few hours on the beach.
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