One of her most lucrative shells was the appropriatelynamed sand dollar. The Sand Dollar Motel and Marina on Grand Isle was a frenzy of activity on Friday as boaters scrambled to get their vessels to higher ground and marina employees secured the premises.
Still a place of pilgrimage even in these more secular times, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne is the very fountain head of England's Christian heritage.It was on Holy Island that the early Christian message was honed and distributed to a largely pagan Northumberland.indisfarne Priory was the home of St Cuthbert and the birthplace of a true national treasure-the Lindisfarne Gospels, a unique illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Mark, Luke and John.
One of the most celebrated Danish raids took place on the monastery on the Island of Lindesfarne off the northeast coast of Great Britain in 793. This raid became a model for Viking raids for the next 200 years and created the legend for the violence that came with them.