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NICOLE ZEMA

Artifact collector Mike Kinsey shows Indian trading beads he found that are part of the Forbes Purchase exhibit at the Wakulla County Historical Society.

Artifacts from Wakulla’s past

By NICOLE ZEMA
nzema@thewakullanews.net

Long before there was a Dollar General or a Wal-Mart in Wakulla County, goods were sold, bought and traded at the Panton and Leslie Trading Post on the Wakulla River.
Starting in 1984, local artist Mike Kinsey spent his free time fanning the silt of the Wakulla River, training his eye to find tiny, and sometimes colorful, remnants of history.