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Talk & Tasting by Corin Hirsch: Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England
Never tasted a Flip or Rattle-Skull? Don't know what they are? Take the opportunity to rectify both at this fun event!
Date & Time: Thursday, April 30, 7:00 pm
Location: Canton Community Center, 40 Dyer Avenue, Canton, CT 06019
Join Historic Sites of Connecticut’s Farmington Valley for a compelling presentation by Corin Hirsch, associate editor and writer for Convene Magazine, previous writer at Seven Days weekly newspaper, and former bartender in a sixteenth-century English pub.
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Corin will give a talk and tasting based on her book, Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England:: From Flips and Rattle-Skulls to Switchel and Spruce Beer (The History Press, 2014).
Her talk will usher in HSCFV’s Historic Taverns & Tastings Bus Tour Saturday, May 2, a tour of 3 Farmington Valley historic taverns, with cooking demos, a tavern lunch, music and another old-time brew tasting.
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The lecture is open to the public, no reservations required; admission is $5 per person for those not joining the bus tour. For bus tour information, visit www.fvva.com.
