Drinking in state tavern lore from Way Back

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: November 30, 2003| Author: DENNIS MCCANN | Copyright information

Dennis McCann

Drinking in state tavern lore from Way Back

By DENNIS MCCANN

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Sunday, November 30, 2003

If I had use of a Way Back Machine for a while instead of my company Ford, I'd set the dial on 1870 and head north so I could see the great forests of Wisconsin before loggers changed them forever.

Then, after a week in the woods, I'd set my transporter for Rice Lake and the 1940s, just to spend a Friday night at the "frien...

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