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Saving America's Mother Vine
from the Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)
Manteo, N.C. -- It began as a fleck of brown on a leaf. Then several leaves curled and died. Soon the sickness spread.
The Mother Vine, believed to be the nation's oldest cultivated grapevine, was in distress. Planted about 400 years ago, most likely by Croatan Indians or Sir Walter Raleigh's settlers, the vine has survived hurricanes, nor'easters and suburbanization.
Now it had been brought low by that scourge of modernity, chemical weedkiller. A power company contractor removing brush from power poles in late May had accidentally sprayed the most famous planting along North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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