Living alone in the Great Dismal Swamp, Wicked Jack is visited by Saint Peter and granted three wishes that he uses to trick the Devil, so that when he dies he is refused by Heaven and Hell and originates the jack-'o-lantern legend....
Change. Who needs it? We do! Mr. John Slack, the keeper of a tavern beside a rutted dirt road in the early 1800s, thought things were just fine the way they were. So did Lucius Stockton, who ran the National Road Stage Company in the mid 1800s. So to...