Last night it was suddenly very important to me to find out if the “Scotch pines” back home were actually from Scotland or native and if they were the same thing as a “Scots pine.”

But ultimately it was more important to me that I even asked that question when no one else bothered to. I’m not really a history buff but it always bothers me when I’d ask why something was called by a certain name or done a certain way and the response was always along the lines of “It’s always been called that, or done that way.”