Mixed Fruit and Nut Salad

When we were coming up, we had pear, apple, peach, persimmon, mulberry, walnut, and pecan trees growing in either our yard or our neighbors’. We also grew scuppernong grapes and all kinds of melons, and we gathered wild blackberries, blueberries, fox grapes, and nuts from the fields and woods. Sometimes Momma, on her trips to a mainland grocery store, would pick up bananas, green grapes, oranges, grapefruit, or apples. This was especially true around Christmas, since fruit was a traditional