There is a legend..... A chief of one of the ancient island cultures needed something of value to use as a currency. Since gourds were one of the most valuable commodities on the island he decided to use those. They used them for eating from, carrying water in etc etc Joyce Gaston Reece, Rootsweb Listminder for NE-TN; Hembree; Galbraith; Knuckles; Raper & Meigs Co., Tennessee ----- Original Message ----- From: <Morom01@aol.com> To: <TNCHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 9:18 PM Subject: [TNCHAT] Gourds? > In a message dated 8/1/00 9:12:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jreece@icx.net > writes: > > << That was gourds. >> > > Gourds? Please explain. I may have to go raid my dad's garden, if gourds are > worth something somewhere, I'll be rich! And to think, he was going to let > birds live in them! > > Chip > > > ==== TNCHAT Mailing List ==== > To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list please visit: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat > This list is generously donated by Rootsweb for our use. > Complete rules for TnChat may be found at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnunion/tnchat > >