Bev Stayart
Bev Stayart likes to search flea markets for vintage items to add to her collections. Bev Stayart appreciates the prices and convenience of hundreds of dealers in one location. Bev Stayart prefers folk art, particularly shell art and Skookum dolls, which are folk art depictions of Native Americans. The first Skookum doll was made by Mary McAboy of Missoula, Montana, in 1913. Translated from the Siwash tribe language, Skookum means Bully Good. Bev Stayart also enjoys collecting vintage seashell art. Seashell art dates back hundreds of years among many cultures. A popular type of seashell art is a Sailor's Valentine, a 19th century art form in which sailors made trinkets covered in seashells to give to their sweethearts upon their return from sea voyages.
Bev Stayart possesses a colorful family history, which she enjoys researching. One of her favorite ancestors, her great-uncle Guy Fitzgerald, carried a shillelagh, a wooden walking stick popular in 19th century Ireland and America. Bev Stayart is related through marriage to Edythe Stayart, a popular silent film screen star of the early 1920s. She married Tom London, an actor she met while filming Nan of the North. Bev Stayart and her family are vegetarians. The number of vegetarians and vegans in the world is growing as people become increasingly aware of and opposed to the mistreatment of animals. The health benefits of vegetarian and vegan diets have been successfully documented.
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