speaking of Hackberries...the Hackberry Ramblers are
featured in teh latest Dirty Linen magazine.
they say they are too old to retire now..

and speaking of cork, there has been a tragic
infection of some sort in Portugal which has
dedcimated the cork oak trees (Quercus) and
so wine bottling is often done now with
artificial corks-plastic ones which seem to be
made from recycled platic of some sort.
perhaps they are molded out of shredded
soft drink bottles.