Detroit resident Stefany Anne Golberg operates the Huckleberry Explorer’s Club, a museum in her home. Among its offbeat, unusual items is a clod of Schwenksville dirt from the Ice Age. Sarah Rose Sharp dug up this story for Hyperallergic.

The museum’s display space comprises wall-mounted cardboard niches in which items are tucked. It mimics a Bulgarian cave in which visitors similarly left keepsakes in the gaps between rocks.

“It began out of my longstanding habit collecting things that aren’t collectible …, ” Golberg said. She also confessed to being motivated by “… a sort of terror that I have of discarding things.”

She’s got a wedding ring found inside an abandoned desk in Brooklyn.

There’s also a solidified drip of paraffin from a Shabbat candle from her car after a rabbi had borrowed it. On first seeing the gnarled curl of wax, Golberg said, “That’s for sure a Huckleberry Club item.”

The minuscule piece of Schwenskville dirt in her collection was found on Jan. 31, 2013. Its pathway to Michigan was not identified, nor was its historic significance.

However, it is theorized to be a remnant of the last Ice Age, which, according to the U.S. Geological Service, reached Pennsylvania.

More on the Montgomery County connection to the Huckleberry Explorer’s Club is at Hyperallergic.

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