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.”
January 20, 2012
”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.”
January 12, 2012
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.
August 3, 2011
A recipe for German hot potato salad from a charming food blogger via a 1959 Junior League cookbook.
December 8, 2010
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.
May 3, 2010
Visiting the beer baron delta, where Blatz, Schlitz and Pabst are all eternally locked in their boozy, intertwined legacies.
March 25, 2010
This blog’s grandfather is Captain Frederick Pabst.
September 24, 2009
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,