In a message dated 10/7/2002 11:02:11 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > There have been newspaper articles > about doing that. He used to tell us the story about taking their eggs and > > knocking them together. The person without the cracked egg would win the > other person's egg. I found that unusual and then after reading about it > in > the newspaper figured it was just a local custom. Surprized to hear that > the > Pa Germans did that, also. > This is the first time that I've ever heard of that custom. Sounds like a winner to me, especially if all the eggs end up going into egg salad, which I love. What I remember is the annual Easter-egg hunts in Memorial Park in Nutley. I went once or twice, and I think I found one egg once and none at all another time. But I also remember the raunchy smell of a hidden egg at home that didn't get found. It was behind the sofa, and the delightful hydrogen-sulfide fragrance eventually led us to the forgotten egg. One year I tried hiding eggs in our yard in California for our kids to find. They missed only one, and that one was in plain sight . . . sitting in a knothole in the fence! Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr