(Editor’s note: Bill Thomas of Gloucester wrote this history in 2023 for the Gloucester Daffodil Club.) I was asked to write a brief history of my family’s involvement with growing daffodils. Sadly for me, the people that I could ask for detailed clarification have all passed. Last year when I received notification that my father had joined the GDC as a lifetime member, I asked him what he remembered most, and boy, was it an education. My grandparents, Carroll Douglas Thomas Sr. and Viola Strigle Thomas, had a farm in the Nuttall section of Gloucester. It’s really just a blip on the map, but we sat across the entrances from Elmington, Exchange, and Toddsbury plantations off the North River. The house is still there in between the homes where I grew up and my Thomas cousins. The daffodil fields were not visible from Route 14 as they were “on top of the Hill” behind us. In the “good old days” (pre-1933 until about 1966) my granddaddy kept 20 acres of six reliable historic cultivars in th...