January 20, 2012
Captain Chelsea Blake tries, fails to avoid cholera
”Blake … stood in mortal fear of death and from the cholera in particular. He went to Milwaukee to escape the latter, but unfortunately he did not.”
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January 12, 2012
Ahoy!
Milwaukee’s Captain Frederick Pabst, in his sea-captain days, crossed paths with another captain — Detroit shipping king and mega-millionaire industrialist Eber Brock Ward.
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August 3, 2011
Be Milwaukee’s Guest
A recipe for German hot potato salad from a charming food blogger via a 1959 Junior League cookbook.
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December 8, 2010
Roaring Dan
The last great Great Lakes pirate, and the only one ever arrested and charged. And the rum that celebrates his legacy. And a drink you can make with that rum.
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May 3, 2010
Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery
Visiting the beer baron delta, where Blatz, Schlitz and Pabst are all eternally locked in their boozy, intertwined legacies.
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March 25, 2010
The Captain
This blog’s grandfather is Captain Frederick Pabst.
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September 24, 2009
Jetsetters
The beau and I are leaving tomorrow afternoon for a long weekend in sunny, swampy Washington D.C. – we’ll be attending the National Book Festival,
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