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“A” is for Allan, Sarah Campbell (1861-1954). Physician.

“B” is for Barnwell, John (ca.1671-1724). Soldier.

Twenty some odd years ago, Edward and I dug up a hickory seedling on his family’s farm. The foot tall seedling had a six-foot long tap root that fortunately took a turn and didn’t go straight down. We brought it home and heeled it in near the house.

For people, shelling them is a laborious process and the tools used include hammers, vises, and a peculiar item called the Texas York Nut Sheller.

Hickory tree leaves are the larval food source of two hundred moths or butterflies; and one is particular is spectacular in both the larval and adult stage.

As we close out a rough year for the stock and bond markets, it’s a great time to reflect on how you managed your portfolio and your emotions during all of this volatility. Did you panic, stay the course or something in between? Joining us to share some perspective on the financial markets both from a technical and an emotional standpoint is Rob DeHollander, a certified financial planner in Greenville, SC.

Applied to music, acoustics is the basis for understanding all sorts of things.

Exidia recisa (common name willow brain or amber jelly roll) is a jelly fungus in the family Auriculariaceae. It is a common, wood-rotting species throughout the northern hemisphere, typically growing on dead attached twigs and branches of willow and other broadleaf trees.

Rudy remembers his first books on nature.

“P” is for Pellagra. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, pellagra once posed a threat to hundreds of thousands of Southerners. Though death claimed only about three percent of the cases, the ravages of the disease were horrible.