FORT BRAGG, Calif.—Millions of smooth glass pebbles blanket the shore near Fort Bragg, giving the famous site its name: Glass Beach. Though the glass pebbles are not quite an all-natural formation, they’ve been drawing tourists for decades.
Joseph Cass Forrington, a former sea captain and owner of the Sea Glass Museum, said it was just considered a local beach when he visited with a friend.
“We were sitting there one day, and I was looking around at the glass, and I said, ‘This is pretty.’ I said, ‘Someone should do something with this,’” Forrington told NTD, a sister media of The Epoch Times. “And I had two girls in college at the time that were keeping me tapped out—I’m on a pension, you know—so I wanted a little money to go play golf. And I haven’t played golf since I started doing it, but that’s what the original intent was.”…