Welcome to Field Notes, our occasional collection of questions about Palm Springs, the desert, and the increasingly unlikely things that happen here.

By now you know the drill. Our guests have questions. Lots of questions. Enough to maybe call them issues. We have help for that here too in Palm Springs. 

So what's the deal with all the presidents who lived here?

Well, first of all, there aren't that many. There is no record that Millard Fillmore ever even visited.

But there are enough to make you wonder whether the Electoral College has a clause nobody told us about.