Sea biscuits are an important part of my heritage because of their history.My grandfather George Stroup and his immediate family siblings, parents/guardians, grandparents, ect all migrated to the southern part of North America, which is where most sea biscuits are found. They migrated there from Germany and if you don't know what a sea biscuit is I’ll tell you. A sea biscuit is a little rock that is like a 3D semi circle so it's round on one side, but then on another it's completely flat. 
Sea biscuits naturally stand out because of the star like engravings on the round side. My family likes to celebrate migrating to America by going to a place called Holden Beach for two weeks every summer. Sea biscuits were predominantly found in the Carolinas, but Sea biscuits today grow in seagrass beds in the Caribbean and around the world, but no longer live in the Carolinas. The ones on Holden Beach are 34 to 55 million years old, from the Eocene epoch. Me and my family collect as many sea biscuits as we can while we are at Holden Beach. Last time we went in the summer of 2023 we got, and I counted, 247! We love to walk the beach and look for good one’s, when we are not chilling by the ocean.
My Grandfather George migrated here around 1950 and went to Holden Beach around 1-2 years later. The first thing he saw was a Meereskeks (pronounced mee-rose-cakes) which is German for sea biscuit. He collected it and brought it home and about four years before I was born my family made going to Holden beach a tradition, which is also the reason I chose a sea biscuit as my artifact.

– JL

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