Last Wednesday, residents across the Tennessee Valley wrote a check or posted a social media entry, noticed the date and paused. While fewer readers each year actually remember hearing the news of that day in 1941, most of us understand the significance of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
The night gets underway with Lee Watson, owner of The Spirits Library in Poblacion, purveyor of rare books, bottles and spirits, stepping onstage behind the bar and hoisting a large volume: it’s Charles Baker’s The Gentlemen’s Companion (1939), from which the night’s three cocktails were concocted.
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