“Have you seen The Judge?” Michael Parker, a fruit tree scientist from NC State University I’m interviewing asks me the week after my visit with Elbie. “The Judge?” I had …
Pecans trees are water loving. In 1578 when Spanish explorer Cebeza de Vacas shipwrecked on Galveston Island the local Native Americans befriended him. De Vacas noted that the Native Americans …
George Washington referred to pecans as Illinois nuts. His troops mentioned in their letters of his fondness for carrying pecans in his pocket to snack on. Washington’s love of pecans …
On an early summer evening a year ago, I’m sitting across the table from my wife at Mama Dip’s in Chapel Hill, a North Carolina institution known for the best …
In 2003 a linguistic authority with Harvard, an Englishmen Bert Vaux, led a study quantifying the dialects of the United States. He conducted an online survey with 50,000 participants on …
