GREENVILLE — Standing in rows in Shawn Russell's garage are about 50 wooden nutcrackers. Some are blank, awaiting coats of paint. Others bear carefully crafted emblems or the face of the Grinch.
An Italian bronze nutcracker dating back to the 4th Century BC is one of the earliest ones known. And, history teaches us that Anne Boleyn received a nutcracker as a gift from King Henry VIII, too.