Carson City Historical Society presents lecture: The Cocktail and Alcohol Culture of Virginia City
The Carson City Historical Society will present its second lecture of 2021, "The Cocktail and Alcohol Culture of Virginia City," on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom. Garrett Barmore, curator of the W. M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno, will present this entertaining lecture.
He will discuss the history of several alcoholic beverages and how they relate to daily life in Virginia City during the mining boom. Barmore, who will be demonstrating the making of these drinks, is an entertaining lecturer.
The lecture includes include 3 cocktail recipes and a bonus punch recipe, which can be downloaded prior to the lecture from the Society's website at CCHistorical.org. Attendees may wish to acquire the ingredients ahead of time and try their hand at making one or more. Some of the more obscure ingredients, such as pineapple gum syrup, are available at Total Wine and other liquor stores.
The Feb. 18 lecture is free and open to the public. For information about attending via Zoom, contact David Bugli at 775-883-4154 or send an email to Dcbugli@aol.com and he will provide you with a meeting link (or a meeting ID with passcode).
You can see Barmore's explorations of the earth sciences on his "Mineral Monday" series here. Barmore received his Master's Degree in Museology from the University of Washington and specializes in professionalizing small museums. Garrett is very interested in Nevada mining history and has worked as a historical archaeologist in Nevada.
Also, the first lecture for 2021 is now available on the Society's YouTube channel. On Jan. 21, Jonah S. Blustain, BLM Assistant Field Manager, presented "More than a Ghost Town: Cultural Resource Management in the Phantom City of Rhyolite, Nevada."
The lecture presented the history of the town and the challenges today of preserving history and managing the site. The town was originally the site of a large gold strike in 1904. By 1907, the early tent city had become a veritable metropolis.
Jonah Blustain currently serves in the U. S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, as the Assistant Field Manager for Non-Renewable Resources, Tonopah Field Office, in Tonopah, Nevada. The video of this lecture is now available here or through a link at CCHistorical.org.