Last night I read Moon's short reference to the the Lost Colony and the Croatan Indians. I had heard of the lost colony, but I had never before heard of the Croatan Indians, or even stumbled across that word or tribe.
Tonight, I found a fascinating story about a 400-year-old grapevine in North Carolina at LATimes.com.
The opening two paragraphs of that story:
What are the odds?Reporting from Manteo, N.C. —It began as a fleck of brown on a leaf. Then several leaves curled and died. Soon the sickness spread.
The Mother Vine, believed to be the nation's oldest cultivated grapevine, was in distress. Planted about 400 years ago, most likely by Croatan Indians or Sir Walter Raleigh's settlers, the vine has survived hurricanes, nor'easters and suburbanization.
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