Month: July 2024

“The President is visiting Shangri-La today…”
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“The President is visiting Shangri-La today…”

Whoever gets elected this November, chances are high that Shangri-La will be visited by the President in 2025.

What’s that you say? Fun fact: What we now call Camp David, “the Presidential retreat”, was once a camp called Shangri-La.

Don’t we all wish for a home-away-from-home where we can relax and do our own thing?

The statue in the yard shows Abraham Lincoln at his summer house away from the White House. Now a museum, you can learn more here.

Lincoln’s summer retreat was just 45 minutes from the White House… if you were

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Prisoners of War: Americans in St. Augustine
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Prisoners of War: Americans in St. Augustine

If Florida’s checkered history seems a mite confusing, it is. This Day in History, July 13 1781, might clear things up a little.

On this day, Members of the American Continental Congress recommended “relief payments” for American prisoners of war released from British captivity at St. Augustine.

Interesting. I wonder if those released prisoners had to

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