Assassination Trivia

[Jim Page]

Laurie, that was absolutely fascinating!!! Thanks so much!

As an oyster lover, I can appreciate how great Maryland oysters are. As a kid, our family lived in Apalachicola, Florida, which is also famed for its oysters, and we used to buy them by the croaker sack full-- during the "R" months!!!

My wife and I had a discussion last week about my eating raw oysters; I've enjoyed them that way on a saltine cracker with a dash of Tabasco sauce my whole life. Patty asked me to look up on the Net whether that is a prudent thing to do. After reading up, I decided all my future oysters will be cooked!!!

When we lived one summer in Everglades City, Florida, just south of Naples, we saw gigantic mounds of oyster shells. Folks there had been using the mounds for years for driveway and road paving and they were still enormous. These mounds of oyster shells had been made by the Indians in that area, and their size was a testament to how many tons of oysters they had consumed over the years.

--Jim