“Strange History” is a library presentation this Friday, May 16, at 11 a.m., by Fountain Hills resident Darla Roberts, who will share strange and little-known facts associated with well-known topics, events and people.

One part of the presentation will focus on little-known U.S. presidential history, including George Washington’s whiskey distillery and teeth, White House ghosts and who saw them, the “real first woman president of the United States, the candidate who was drunk at his own inauguration and other strange history facts that may contradict what audiences were taught in school.”

Roberts will also explore the origin of words, idioms and phrases used today and how many do not mean what many would think.

Questions like “Why is happiness associated with ‘cloud nine?” and “What is a ‘pig in a poke?”

Roberts will discuss how and when these expressions originated along with other often used but misunderstood phrases and how often people quote William Shakespeare without knowing it.

This fun presentation will stimulate the audience’s intellectual curiosity and desire to keep learning.

Sponsored by the Fountain Hills Friends of the Library, this presentation will be held in the library’s non-fiction reading lounge.

Registration must be made online at evanced.mcldaz.org/evanced/lib/eventcalendar.asp.