I am reading a great book about one of my long ago family members and enjoying it so much. In it is a story for which I had to share with my little ones. "Wash's" motherless children were being raised by other family members while he served in the Navy during the Civil War. After the War, he was left with very little but brought his children home to make a home for them with what he could. With a fifty-cent coin and some dried leaf tobacco, he and his two young sons, proceeded to peddle and barter across NC. On their trip home, he bought a wooden bucket filled with brown sugar. Placed in the middle of the floor, he happily watched his children as they attacked the sugar with their spoons. With Christmas fast approching, I wondered if my children or grandchildren would be so happy to get sugar or maybe a doll or wooden car and that's all? Makes one really think. By the way, this person was George Washington Duke or "Wash" Duke of Orange Co., NC of the Tobacco Manufacturing Duke's. Helen