Newspaper Annie wrote:
>
> I know this doesn't exactly pertain to NY history, but when do the
> signs of spring start to appear? (It's going into a story set around
> the turn of the century...)
>
> Rachel Hullett
>
> ==
>                  City Hall Park, 1899
>           Home of the ORIGINAL Newsboy Strike
>    http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/offord/192
>                     The Mousetrap
>                  Home of Mouse Tales
>  http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/6235/main.html
>
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I always used the appearance of asparagus in the supermarket as a sign
that spring would, indeed, come again.  But now it seem that asparagus
shows up at any old time during the whole winter so I guess that won't
work any more!...........................Karen Campola