Mike,

Are we going to see you on an A ride soon? Missed you for the Easter hill
climbing up Bear Mtn.

On 4/11/07, mckaye60@... <mckaye60@...> wrote:
>
> Congrats Bruce.
>
> Mike K.
>
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> From: bkwells@... <bkwells%40verizon.net>
> To: wccchat@yahoogroups.com <wccchat%40yahoogroups.com>;
> wccarides@yahoogroups.com <wccarides%40yahoogroups.com>;
> bhill@... <bhill%40rcsworks.com>
> Sent: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 3:24 PM
> Subject: [WCCARides] OT: Beer tasting
>
> This is off topic, but I thought a bunch of you might like to know my home
> brewed beer will be featured in a beer tasting Thursday April 19th at 7:30
> pm.
>
> Bill Wander will speak at Wayside Cottage, which was built c.1715 and
> became
> an inn/tavern in the mid-18th century. His talk, "Got Beer? The Scarsdale
> Beer Connection", will be about the historic taverns in the Westchester
> and New
> York area. As an extra added attraction, the lecture will be followed by a
> beer-tasting provided by Scarsdale home brewers Bruce Wells' VIP Brewery,
> Charlie and Carol Gardner Ewen, as well as Scott Vaccaro of Captain
> Lawrence
> Brewing Co. and Wander's own brew, "India Pale Ale". The lecture is free
> and open to the public; there will be a $20 charge for those who wish to
> partake of the beer-tasting.
>
> Bill Wander is the historian for McSorley's Old Ale House in New York
> City.
> Most Scarsdale residents will probably be surprised to learn about the
> connection between the family of Col. Alexander B. Crane and McSorley's:
> the
> Cranes of Scarsdale and their predecessors had a four-generation link to
> the
> Saloon, and a part in its survival and re-emergence after prohibition.
>
> Wander's history of McSorley's, the oldest continuously operating saloon
> in New York City (it opened in 1854), "Sawdust on the Floor", will be
> published by Greekworks. Bill has traveled the world for more than 20
> years
> as a documentary film-maker for National Geographic, The Discovery and
> History Channels, the three major networks, and Public Television. A
> contributor to three Emmy award-winning films, he has been awarded the
> American Psychological Association's best media production of the year
> prize. He has also been a judge for the Museum of the City of New York's
> annual History Day program, and has contributed to exhibitions for the
> Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian, "Booming Out, Mohawk
> Ironworkers", and the Brooklyn Historical Society's "One-Hundred Bottles
> of
> Beer on the Wall".
> The Wayside Cottage is located at 1039 Post Rd in Scarsdale. See the
> following link for the exact location.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/33mn6r
>
> Some history of the Wayside Cottage:
>
> Historians believe that it dates back to about 1715. This makes it one of
> the oldest preserved residences in the United States. Colonel Rufus
> Putnam,
> the chief engineer of Washington's Army, in his account of a scouting trip
> made before the Battle of White Plains speaks of "riding as far as three
> or
> four miles south of White Plains to a tavern and listening to a
> conversation
> of Whig farmers". He could very well have been speaking of Wayside.
>
> Wayside was originally built by the Tompkins family. In 1761, the Varian
> family moved to the cottage when Mr. Varian, a staunch patriot, decided to
> move his family out of New York City as it was occupied by British
> soldiers,
> to neutral territory, as Wayside's location was then considered . The
> Varian
> family's tenure straddled both colonial and post-colonial life with
> Wayside
> Cottage serving as an Inn and personal residence up until 1841. In 1853
> Wayside was purchased by the Butler family as part of their vast country
> estate. Legend has it that Wayside may have been part of the "underground
> railway" and this could very well be true. In 1917, then owner Emily
> Butler, gave Wayside along with 30 acres of land to the Scarsdale
> Community
> Farm, a plan designed to take Scarsdale off the food market and make it
> self-supporting as far as winter vegetables were concerned. People
> subscribed to the Community Farm and were paid wages when they worked
> there. Noting the success of the Community Farm, Miss Butler deeded
> Wayside
> to the Village of Scarsdale in 1919 "for the purpose of creating an
> historical park and for the preservation and maintenance of the ancient
> building for the use of educational and historical purpose; for fostering
> a
> public and democratic spirit in the community and providing a center for
> civic welfare, club rooms or lyceum for the use of the people of
> Scarsdale."
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Bruce Wells
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