Extra Credit Questions

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I believe the difference (at least when I grew up) is that huckleberries grow wild and are smaller than blueberries, which are cultivated. The roadsides in Southern Maryland were covered with huckleberries when I was a child, and one could stop on the non-shoulders and pick them. Now, thanks to the winter chemicals that are spread in abundance when the first snowflake falls, we have nary a huckleberry and spend outrageous prices for blueberries at the market.

The wild abundance of other berries like strawberries and blackberries growing on their own along roadsides, in old cemeteries, etc. has also largely disappeared. If Booth and Herold had planned their trip through Southern Maryland a few months later, they could have feasted off Mother Nature.