My family always gives a penny along with any and all knives because It "protects" the recipient from hurting themselves with them. I can't tell you all the different superstitions that I heard as a kid, but they were considered more like "rules". I live in Alabama (born and raised),...
while others trialed trifoliate orange-which never grew tall enough, and the imported buckthorn- which did great in the Northeast (now loathed for how well it did) but underperformed in the South.
Here’s the point I’m trying to make about General Henry Knox. Karen and I took a vacation up to Edgecomb, Maine. During the week, Karen found a mumber of places for us to go, mostly visiting a variety of lighthouses, historic sites, some ancient cemeteries (Karen knows that’s a...