In todays paper, 2 NOV 2003, Knight Ridder News Service offered the article: "Cape Cod Delights in Off Season"--by Ellen Creager--dateline Brewster, Mass. Ms. Creager writes in one glaring paragraph: "The Cape, 77 miles south of Boston, is where the Pilgrims dallied in 1620 before moving on to Plymouth Rock. Its where prickly descendants of Mayflower folk still live, where sea captains and sailors drifted and settled, where cranberries, Kennedys and 200 years of vacationers have created a mystique more opaque than the morning fog." Please! what means "prickly?" Ed Sherman of William Brewster, Francis Cooke and Richard Warren GSMD # 64,667, SC # 609 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html