One could hardly come to Dublin without visiting the Guinness Storehouse. So that is what my wife and I did during our recent trip to that fair city. Guinness and I go back a long way. Of all the beers that I currently drink with any regularity Guinness is the one with which I have the longest association. My Guinness drinking days go back over 30 years to when I was undergraduate student at the University of Continue reading The Guinness Storehouse
Monthly Archives: August 2015
The Old General Store Revisited
Anyone who grew up in rural America, especially in the South, may remember fondly the old general store which not only carried many of the essentials of life but was also a gathering place for people in the community, especially in the winter when the clientele (often men) would sit around the pot-bellied wood stove exchanging stories and probably whittling on a piece of wood at the same time. This is the stuff of a Norman Rockwell illustration. Continue reading The Old General Store Revisited
Local Beer Please
Art on the Mall is an annual summer art fair that is held on the campus of The University of Toledo every July. This was the 23rd year of the event and there were over 100 booths featuring the work of artists working in a variety of media including acrylic, glass, Continue reading Local Beer Please