"Putting up" vegetables in Mason jars was an annual summer chore that still is performed today in many Sandy Spring homes. This scene is at Ingleside.

Sam Rice's poultry farm of the 1930s and '40s spreads across Ashton acres now bordering Tree Lawn Drive. In the scattered coops, he hygenically raised hens whose eggs sold for a dollar apiece to the National Institutes of Health for virology vaccine research. A family of Japanese interns helped with the poultry during World War II.