Tue 11/21 @ 7PM
Tap Talks, taking place at Kent’s North Water Brewing every third Tuesday, offers a chance to enjoy some of the craft brewery’s locally brewed ales and beers, while learning something about the history of the ground it’s sitting on.
Kent resident, historian Tim Wunderle, will take people WAY back in time in his talk “Kent Before the Haymakers,” that is, prior to the first decade of the 1800s when settlers arrived and began to develop the area with mills, manufacturing, canal shipping and, in the early 20th century, Kent State University. (The Haymaker family arrived in 1805.) But what was it like 1700 to 1810, when nothing that is there now existed and life was entirely different?
“Lots of people shy away from discussing this period,” says Wunderle. “There were lots of bad things going on and tough decisions made. I hope to provide not clear cut answers that take the pain away, but maybe soften and round off the sharp edges of that history.”
Join Wunderle this Tuesday, have a couple of beers and ponder the conflicts that arouse among the native tribes inhabiting the area and the early settlers.
There’s no admission charge so but a beer.