Chateau Trivia of the Day: Sept 14, 2011

I learned the other day a fun new bit of Chateau trivia. There is a small island in the moat here. Before the current owners had this place, there was a stretch of time where the home was uninhabited. The island served as a "party spot" for local teenagers, who would canoe to its shore in search of an isolated destination. Once, there, amongst the trees, they would partake...in drinking...champagne. We are, after all, a mile or so from the Champagne region of France. To conceal their "activities," they would turn the bottles upside down and shove them into the dirt to make them virtually disappear. So we have an island paved with glass bottle bottoms!