Another American Adventure: more weekend photos

Monday, September 6, 2010

more weekend photos

Here are some more photos from the weekend. John before the Steelers stadium, and back to the Hofbrauhaus. (I think we like that place.) John wanted to make sure I had a photo of all the kinds of beer that are brewed there. I even like the beer there (and I don't like beer).

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BarbaraSeptember 7, 2010 at 11:21 AM
I love a good beer, but never drink the American stuff any more. I like the almost aluminum-flavoured European brands and a few others. I gather this Hofbrauhaus serves a more European-style beer.
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beth cioffolettiSeptember 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM
It definitely doesn't taste like the usual beer. It is cleaner, meatier (if that makes any sense). John says it's like drinking food.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.