WHO CHANGED THE NAME OF THE MARYLAND PRESIDENTIAL RETREAT FROM SHANGRI-LA TO CAMP DAVID?
Dwight D. Eisenhower changed it in 1953, naming it after his grandson. WHAT DOES “AULD LANG SYNE” MEAN? In Scottish, it means literally “old long ago”. WHO WROTE “MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB”? One of the earliest and most influential American magazine editors, Sarah Joseph Hale – in 1830. In addition to founding the first national women’s magazine, Godley’s Ladies’ Magazine, and successfully campaigning to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, she was inspired to write the rhyme by an actual case of a child’s being followed to school by a pet lamb. GARDENING AND FIX-IT-UP TIPS Iris Borers By Mary Vaananen If your iris seem to have ragged edges, or dark streaky areas on the fans in May and June, yellow leaves that pull off easily, or you’ve found that portions of the rhizomes are damaged (eaten away), you are dealing with the biggest pest of irises – the iris borer. Iris borers begin their life cycle from eggs that have over-wintered on dead iris leaves. Larvae emerge and crawl up the new fo
