When the Scafidel boys were little, they decided to dig a hole to China.
Growing up in Tangipahoa Parish, it wasn’t hard to get started, and soon they had a four-foot hole behind their daddy’s shop in the soft Louisiana marsh.
They worked for months to reach their goal and finally gave up, having accomplished an impressive start for a tunnel to the other side of the world.
When I was in second grade,…
