Filling the Frame

Around four years ago, staffers from the Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office were in Wilmington for computer training, when they saw a secretary’s counter covered in rocks. “It caught our attention,” says Peggy Barwick. “People had brought them to her as souvenirs.” The group began to collect rocks from their travels and soon customers also started bringing them in. There are rocks in the window of the Sheriff’s Office from all over the U.S. and as far away as Kaiserslautern, Germany and Ikeika, Japan. If you would like to add a rock to the collection, be sure to label it with your name, date and place where you traveled.