-Pinewoods Treasure
Bill: “Great! You’ve found an important piece of Florida history. It’s a gum cup.”
Ace: “That’s a big cup. You could fit a lot of gum in there.”
Bill: “Not chewing gum. This cup collects pine resin, which is called gum. It would have been attached to the tree, like so.”
final images, 12-11-07
illustrator: Bill Otersen
writer: Sarah Wagoner