Ironspring Orchard & Farm
Dried Gourd - Spinning Gourds
$1.00 /individual
In a letter to his granddaughter Ann Cary Bankhead, dated Dec. 29, 1809, Thomas Jefferson mentioned a present he had for her younger sister Mary from “Miss Thomas…the minutest gourd ever seen.” Jefferson sketched the gourd in the margin of his letter, the shape of which is identical to a diminutive heirloom variety from Primm Springs, Tennessee, known as the Tennessee Spinner or Dancing Gourd.