Potential
Many years ago, I was going through a stack of childhood papers, and came across my first report cards. Year by year, the teachers informed my parents that I was having trouble with certain tasks and...
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A Good Idea?
About 14 years ago I had cancer, and talented surgeon got rid of it for me. At our last meeting, I said, “Thank you for saving my life.” And he replied, “I didn’t save it. I only prolonged it. And it...
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It was the summer of 1963. I was a Boy Scout at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico. The Scouts had a thing where you would gather in a circle and talk to Scouts from all over the country. I...
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Sex Object Objection
From the “Dear Zymurgy” page of the Spring 1989 issue of Zymurgy magazine. Dear Zymurgy, I am writing to express my deep disappointment over your recent Special Issue of Zymurgy, specifically with the...
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Log Home Postcards
A piece written for editor Roland Sweet of Log Homes Illustrated, July 2001.
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Stupid Beer Laws
Published as “Father Knows Best: The State of State Beer Laws” in All About Beer, January 1998. The laws may have changed, but here’s how they stood many years ago. *** Beer drinkers never travel...
View ArticleOne Year Closer to the Renaissance
Great Lakes Brewing News, June/July 1996 The last medieval brewery, dating from the 14th century, survived intact until shortly after World War II at Queen’s College, Oxford. In Syracuse, New York,...
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The Beers of Christmas
Syracuse New Times, December 24, 1986 Like many traditions that set Christmas distinctly apart from other holidays – gift-giving, evergreens, holly, mistletoe and the wassail bowl – brewing a special...
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A Connoisseur’s Guide to Beer from the Bottoms Up
Syracuse New Times, April 12, 1973; Buffalo New Times, March 31, 1974 This piece is 50 years old, but it does give a picture of what the beer scene was like in the year it was written. *** Warning:...
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Miller, the Beer That Could Make Volney Famous
This article appeared in the Syracuse New Times in June of 1975. Miller High Life was the first beer I ever had. It was about 1949, I think. Being three years old, I could just reach the arm of my...
View ArticleSchlitz’s Expansion Intoxicates Local Officials
This appeared in the Syracuse New Times, September 23, 1973, and made it all the way to the brewery president’s desk, angering him and prompting the comment, “What is this paper anyway?” *** As part...
View ArticleDrafted in the Beer Wars
This article appeared in the Syracuse New Times, February 25, 1987. The brand information is dated, but the larger issues are relevant today. *** When a cold beer slides your way, do you think of your...
View ArticleKihm on Beer: A Malty Bibliography
In 1973, editor Mike Greenstein of the Syracuse New Times gave me the chance to write about beer. My career as a writer had its beginnings then and there. In 1985, Charlie Papazian gave me an...
View ArticleThe Origins of Abbey Ales
To understand Abbey Ales, and how religion and brewing came to exist in such an unexpected and beneficial harmony, one has to journey back to the early days of Christianity and the dawn of the...
View ArticleMy Left Knee
It’s summer. I wear shorts to church. This past Sunday, during a lull in the action, I decided to walk down memory lane with my left knee. The first scar appeared when I was about six years old. I had...
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Abbie
For many years, I was very lucky to have two grandmothers. Grandma Braun, my mother’s mom, loved little children, until they could talk back. When my cousin Daryl and I told her that the wrestling...
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Hollis Slocum
It has been said that your interest in family history begins at the funeral of the last person who could have answered your questions. So it is with me and my interest in Hollis William Slocum. I...
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Taglines
In my 38 years as a copywriter, I found taglines the most difficult to write. Long copy was easy. Shorter copy, written to fit a layout, a little harder. Headlines, very difficult. But taglines – in...
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Tuck’s Paintbox Series
In the first two decades of the 1900s, Raphael Tuck & Sons, England’s foremost postcard producer, published a series of Postcard Painting Books, an introduction to mail art for children. In...
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Hans Liska
This painting haunts me. I find it beautiful and fascinating. And yet the subject matter – German Stuka dive bombers returning to Greece after a mission over Crete – is, to say the least, disturbing....
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