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Happy Free Book Friday! Today’s giveaway, Asheville Beer: An Intoxicating History of Mountain Brewing, comes from beer scholar and journalist Anne Fitten Glenn, with a foreword by Zane Lamprey. You can enter to win by commenting on this post by Sunday, October 21 (12:oo a.m., EST)! The winner (picked by the robots at Random.org) will [...]
Drinking local harks back to the founding of Asheville in 1798. Whether it be moonshine or craft beer, the culture of local “hooch” is deeply ingrained in the mountain dwellers of Western North Carolina. Asheville’s wealth of beer-lovers earned the city the coveted Beer City, USA title year after year and prompted West Coast beer [...]
Happy Friday! We hope you’re pumped for today’s freebie, Charleston Beer: A High Gravity History of Lowcountry Brewing. Today’s giveaway comes from the hoppy stomping grounds of Timmons Pettigrew, and just in time for the first annual Charleston Beer Garden 2012. You can enter to win by commenting on this blog post by 12 a.m. [...]
Happy Free Book Friday! Today’s giveaway, Baltimore Beer: A Satisfying History of Charm City Brewing, comes from beer scholar and journalist Rob Kasper, with a foreword by Boog Powell and photography by Jim Burger. You can enter to win by commenting on this post by Sunday, April 29 (12:oo a.m., EST)! You may have to put [...]
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Guest post by author Cindy Grisham Long before he explored the wilds of the Congo in search of a lost missionary and uttered the now famous words, “Dr. Livingston, I presume?” Sir Henry Morton Stanley explored the wilds of Arkansas. He often spent evenings with local families who shared what little they had with him. [...]
Guest post by Sarah Falter, History Press Publicity & Marketing Wisps of smoke floated through the crisp November sky towards the palmetto trees that framed the battlefield, and then curled casually towards the bright Charleston sun. … [Read More...]
