Sandbar Lecture Series: Seashell Hunting Strategy

Join nationally recognized seashell hunter Dr. Ashley Oliphant for this exciting beachcombing strategy session. Oliphant will teach the audience how to read the wind, moon, tide, currents, and seasons to find the very best seashells the ocean has to offer. Participants will receive specific recommendations for which beaches to hunt and how to do it. Following the presentation, Oliphant will field audience questions and sign her brand new book, “The Ultimate Shell Seeker’s Guide: Building a Better Beachcombing Strategy.” You do not want to miss this exciting opportunity to hear a lively lecture from one of the nation’s top shellers. Dr. Ashley Oliphant is a retired Full Professor of English with teaching specialties in 20th-century American literature, the works of Ernest Hemingway, literary modernism, and rhetoric and composition. She travels all over the United States offering interactive shark tooth and seashell workshops for children and adults and presentations about her other books. She is a longtime member of the Hemingway Society and a contributor to its conferences and The Hemingway Review. Oliphant is the author of seven books. Her doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2007, was titled “Hemingway’s Mixed Drinks: An Examination of the Varied Representation of Alcohol Across the Author’s Canon.” “Shark Tooth Hunting on the Carolina Coast,” published by Pineapple Press in 2015, is the only color guide to fossil shark teeth found in the Carolinas. It has sold more than 20,000 copies. “Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at ‘The End of the World'” was published by Pineapple Press in 2017. Her fourth book, a novel titled “In Search of Jimmy Buffett: A Key West Revival,” was released in April 2018 by Warren Publishing. In 2021 Oliphant co-authored a book with Beth Yarbrough, her mother, titled “Jean Laffite Revealed: Unraveling One of America’s Longest Running Mysteries.” In 2022, Warren Publishing released “Higher Education: Chronicles of a Dumpster Fire,” the comedic prequel to “In Search of Jimmy Buffett.”