Perhaps the most famous American woman to wear a bouffant hairstyle was First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

August, Charis named her, because that's when she was born. Warm breezes, baby powder, languorous heat, the smell of mown hay. Such a soft name. Too soft for her daughter, who has added an a. Augusta, she is now — a very different resonance. Marble statues, Roman noses, tight-lipped commanding mouths.

Last year may not have brought the upstate Tickmageddon that some had predicted, but state researchers found plentiful ticks in the field last summer and fall — and more ticks equals more disease.

If ye gannin out the neet ye betta tell wor Jimmy.