Remember - Tuesday is the banquet at the Aria Restaurant starting at 6 pm.

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Pat Ford wanted to make sure BSW members saw the article about the
in today's Post about the absence of acorns this year.


Rod Simmons and Alan "Whittemire" are both quoted in the article.


Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop

By Brigid Schulte

The idea seemed too crazy to Rod Simmons, a measured, careful field
botanist. Naturalists in Arlington County couldn't find any acorns. None.
No hickory nuts, either. Then he went out to look for himself. He came up
with nothing. Nothing crunched underfoot. Nothing hit him on the head.

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