A batch of Pale Ale rolls off the line at the Schlafly Bottleworks brewery in Maplewood, MO. PHOTO BY HUY RICHARD MACH/TNS For as long as I can remember, St. Louis has been a beer town. And for most of that time, St. Louis was a one-brewery town. Anheuser-Busch ruled the roost; even sighting a […]
prohibition
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Cannabis: America’s common sense crop
In 1914, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow-journalism crusade to demonize the entire genus of cannabis plants. Why? To sell newspapers, of course, but also because he was heavily invested in wood-pulp newsprint and he wanted to shut down competition from paper made from hemp – a species of cannabis that is a […]
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from a great-grandkid poem #1
one hears family stories that arerevealed quite late sometimes onlyas conjecture for instance my friend’spaternal great-grandmother when themen in black pulled up in their blackhearse-like cars she shoved all herchildren under the dining room tableits cloth to the floor the men wentdown to her basement came up leftshe lifted her long skirt rolled a wadof […]
