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Widow parts with rare emerald from 1622 shipwreck to help Ukraine

Por: The Boston Globe Nation December 03, 2022

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For years, Mitzi Perdue looked down at her hand and saw history.The emerald on her ring finger told a story stretching back nearly four centuries, to the sinking of a Spanish galleon near the Florida Keys in 1622 and a decadeslong effort of a colorful undersea treasure hunter named Mel Fisher to retrieve its payload of gold and silver coins, gold nuggets and jewelry.It reminded her, too, of her late husband, chicken magnate Frank Perdue, who... + full article



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