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The average youngster or teenager has, over time, had reason to dread the C-Word: CURFEW! This seeming limitation on a young person’s liberty puts kids at loggerheads with their parents who only seek for the safety and well-being of their children.

But how did the word Curfew come to be connoted with the time by which a child or person had to be home or “face the music”?  The word has its beginnings in the unique setting of medieval farmlands adjoining forests and timberlands. The proximity of the forest to medieval housing posed occasional problems, one of which was the ever-present threat of a fire out of control. This would mean disaster to both lives and livelihood.