The menagerie of animals at News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams’ Alva homestead are often the focus of her essays, but this week, the animals taking the spotlight are a pair of cartoonish blow-up pool toys. Besides facilitating poolside family fun, the complex origin of these plastic blow-up flotation toys can serve as a connection to our planet’s ancient past.
Mr. Dolphin and Mr. Lobster
Michael Coghlan