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Sperryville
By SALLY KEYSER
987-8471
nels had to be dried before you could store them for further use. I still enjoy cracking a few to eat. It is enjoyable to watch the squirrels carrying them away, or seeing them sit on a tree limb cutting the hulls away and gnawing through to the kernel.
Another nut was the hazelnut. We had many bushes and they grew in a bur. When the bur became yellow they would release a brown nut. On fall afternoons we would all enjoy going to the hazelnut bush and gather some to eat. We still have several of the bushes, but for some reason they don’t taste quite the same.
The oak trees in the mountain produce acorns. The people who raised hogs would turn them into the mountain to eat the acorns as an extra source of food before butchering. The acorn also provided food for the squirrels, and now the deer eat them.
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