Reading this long series, great for pandemic life, Anne of Green Gables. Beginning to identify with the cook, who had not much interest in politics, but now wishes the Kaiser would have boils all over him. She previously had other not nice thoughts about him. What makes the plot thicken is that, though it's based in Canada, the author is bringing in Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President during the 1918 pandemic and WWI. Wilson even got the Spanish Flu himself, and they tried to keep it from the public. It affected him badly.
And on that note, since we're close to Hallowe'en...
The Octagon, actually a 6-sided house, served as a temporary White House. One night in the 1950's, a caretaker there called a doctor for his wife. After treating his wife, the physician asked the caretaker if a costume party was taking place. The doctor had just seen a man on the staircase costumed in the style of the early 1800's. He had even had to move to one side to allow the man to pass by. It's likely it was President James Madison. Dolly Madison has also returned as a spirit, her ghost witnessed on the grounds of the White House during Woodrow Wilson's term.-- The Haunting of the Presidents, by Joel Martin and William Birnes
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