I am contractually required to ask if Tom Hill has been following it from the very start......

[quote=Bruce L.]A little known factoid almost as mysterious as the Lost Colony itself was a cryptic note found near the fort on Roanoke Island: "....cloudy/not clean; lacks acids/poor acidification control lacking balance with overly sweetish/Christmas pudding cloying thou tongue and cheeks with foxy/sauvage/musty/post-muskrat love finisheth reminiscent of south side of porcine breaking wind (Manchester colloquialism) while enjoying boiled cabbage and oysters in abundance on celebration of birth of Virginia Dare....."

Interesting quote from the article: "The Mother Vine produces sweet scuppernong grapes, a variety of muscadine. 'In all the world the like abundance is not to be found,' two of Sir Walter Raleigh's explorers wrote from Roanoke Island in 1584. The island's grapes helped sustain Raleigh's settlers before the 1587 Lost Colony mysteriously disappeared forever." Makes you wonder if perhaps scuppernog might have contributed to their disappearance.
A little known factoid almost as mysterious as the Lost Colony itself was a cryptic note found near the fort on Roanoke Island: "....cloudy/not clean; lacks acids/poor acidification control lacking balance with overly sweetish/Christmas pudding cloying thou tongue and cheeks with foxy/sauvage/musty/post-muskrat love finisheth reminiscent of south side of porcine breaking wind (Manchester colloquialism) while enjoying boiled cabbage and oysters in abundance on celebration of birth of Virginia Dare....."