Washington snipped here? College says it found prez's hair

abcaustin ^ | Feb. 18, 2018 | Mary Esch

[bgill]

Tucked in the pages of a grimy, leather-bound almanac in the archives at New York's Union College was a tiny envelope with the hand-scrawled words "Washington's hair." A librarian who had been cataloging old books gingerly opened the yellowed envelope to find a lock of silvery hair tied with a thread. "It was one of those mind-blowing moments that happen every once in a while in a librarian's life," said John Myers, a catalog and metadata librarian at the college. "I thought, that doesn't mean George Washington, does it?" It apparently does.

[bgill]

Too bad they won't/can't do a DNA test on it.

[PGR88]

Maybe we can clone multiple George Washingtons and distribute them among our Federal Government agencies.

[Albion Wilde]

When I was a young person I threw out a bunch of old stuff my mother had hung on to. One thing was a ropey chain made out of some strange material that had gold clasps on each end—a watch fob. My grandfather owned a pocket watch and apparently this ratty old fob had belonged to him. Only later did I realize it was woven from my grandmother's hair.

Here is a picture of a watch fob (not the one I wrote about):

[real saxophonist]

I visited Mount Vernon once, and they actually did have a lock of Washington’s hair on display.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks bgill.