The Cellar
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Essays, field notes, and short pieces — history, the river, leaf, and liquor.
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history · October 21, 2025
A Night at the Duff Green Mansion, Vicksburg MS
A reflection on the Duff Green Mansion in Vicksburg, Mississippi — a portrait of antebellum grandeur, cotillions, the Civil War siege, and the Greens whose home became both ballroom and battlefield.
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spirits · October 11, 2025
A Reflection on Bourbon, Time, and the American Spirit
A meditation on bourbon — its frontier origins, the alchemy of oak and char, the lost years of Prohibition, and what the slow patience of an aging barrel can teach about the American spirit.