The ilex or holly, and the ivy, both evergreen plants are traditional Christmas symbols: the holly for part of the same reason as the Glastonbury Rose is, because it represents the Crown of Thorns ...

Sixteen US presidents were educated at colleges and universities in the Ivy League. Joe Biden was the first US president since Ronald Reagan not to have attended an Ivy League school.

Ivy Morton is a reporter and multimedia journalist at ABC7. She is a proud graduate of Florida State University and fourth-generation Suncoast resident.