Cynthia Davis       May 20th

Erin Delivery     May 28th

Women’s Issue.... Cold-Killing Hot Toddies
Granny was right. Hot toddies really can ward off a cold or flu, says Martha Howard, medical director of Wellness Associates in Chicago. Brew up a potent virus fighter by simply stirring the juice of a lemon & honey to taste into a mugful of boiling water. Next, add 2 teaspoons of elderberry syrup that you get at a health food store. The toddy’s hot steam & liquid help clear your head; the lemon clears stuffiness and gives you some vitamin C; and the antiviral and antibacterial honey also soothes your throat. Elderberry syrup is a proven treatment for flus and colds and practically guarantees shortening recovery time by up to four days. If you like your toddies a bit more spirited, add just a jigger of whiskey, rum, bourbon, or brandy a few hours before bedtime. The alcohol acts as a mild sedative and may even help you sweat out the cold.

HISTORICAL TREES IN AMERICA
Trees have ever been a factor in life’s history; they preserve historical events, and are now the only living links between us and the remote past, about which memories cluster like trailing vines. The historic trees left are not numerous, and, therefore, are more precious; they are patriarchs in the society of the vegetable kingdom, receiving the homage of many. With what mute eloquence do they address us; with what pathos do the trees of Olive tell the beautiful life and sublime death of the One we worship! How the trees of Lebanon talk of Solomon and the Temple at Jerusalem! The presence of these green robed senators of mighty woods stirs a spirit of reverence in the human soul. The groves were God’s first temples.
In our country and in our own land, there have been and still are ancient trees intimately connected with our history as colonists, as a nation, which command the interest of every American. Probably the most ancient of these living links with the past, was the Big Tree that stood on the banks of the Genessee River, near the Village of Geneseo, New York. When white man first saw the tree it was revered by the Senecas that named the beautiful village “Big Tree.” This tree was an oak; its age was more than a thousand years. In 1857, there was little left but its mighty trunk. A vigorous elm had clasped one of its decayed branches robbed of its sustenance hour by hour, while twining its young branches lovingly among the gnarled ones of the patriarch, drew from it its life blood. During a great flood in 1857, these two trees were swept away and buried in the bosom of Lake Ontario. 

In the summer of 1682, a small vessel, “The Welcome”, sailed from England with William Penn and a company of Quakers for the shores of the Delaware Bay. The settlers received him with great joy when he landed. “It is the best day we have ever seen”, said the Swedes.
After making arrangements with the colonists, Penn proceeded up the river. There on the bank, under the wide spreading but leafless branches of the Elm of Penn’s Treaty Tree, the treaty was made with the Indians, not for their lands, but for peace and friendship. “We meet”, said Penn, “in the broad pathway of good faith and good will. No advantages shall be taken of either side; all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, for parents sometimes chide their children too severely—nor brothers, for brothers differ; the friendship between you and me, I will not compare to a chain, for that might rust or break—we are one body, one flesh, one blood.” The children of the forest were delighted with this new doctrine, so different from the Puritans and Cavaliers, of which they had heard and said, “We will live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the moon and sun shall endure”, and this was the only treaty between those nations and the Christians that was never sworn to, and never broken. 

   “HISTORIC TREES IN AMERICA”

NEW YORK: - - - - - - - - - -The Big Tree, The Stuyvesant Pear Tree, Gates Weeping Willow, 
James McCrea, Arnolds Willow Tree

CONNECTICUT- - - - - - - - The Charter Oak

MASSACHUSETTS- - - - - The Washington Elm, The Tory Tulip Tree

KENTUCKY- - - - - - - - - -  Beech Tree with D. Boone and Dates 1784-1800

SOUTH CAROLINA- - - - -The Magnolia Council Tree

INDIANA- - - - - - - - - - - - -The Miami Apple Tree

LONG ISLAND- - - - - - - - -The Fox Oak 

MARYLAND- - - - - - - - - -  A Tulip Poplar- called "Old Liberty Tree"

VIRGINIA- - - - - - - - - - - -  The Apple Tree at Appomattox

LOUISIANA- - - - - - - - - -  The Stately Pecan Tree

GEORGIA- - - - - - - - - - - - The Tree that Owns Itself

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA- The Cameron Elm and the Memorial Trees 
planted at the Tomb of Washington.