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Sold Down the River

Notes to my Grandchildren (a series) “Grandpa, what does it mean, ‘To be sold down the river’?” We’ve heard this phrase all our lives, and we all know it means something negative, but few of us realize where it comes from.  When my own granddaughter asked it, I was reminded again that knowledge is not […]