Dear Son:
Enclosed please find a sketch of your Great Grandfather’s homestead with divers references to particular parts…
You, perhaps, do not know the difference between chinquepins and chestnuts. Chinquepins grow singly in a round burr. They are smaller, blacker, harder and sweeter than chestnuts….We would take a sheet, table cloth, wagon cover or something to spread on the ground under and around the tree, which we would thresh with a pole and bring the shiners down by wholesale.
