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“Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out”
A Presentation by Josh Noel
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Reception at 6:30 p.m.
Lecture at 7:00 p.m.
Evanston History Center, 225 Greenwood Street, Evanston, IL
Admission: $10. (Payable at the door.) EHC Members Free.
Reservations recommended: jthompson@evanstonhistorycenter.org

Join us for a talk by Josh Noel, author of Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser Bush, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business. A reception kicks off the event at 6:30 p.m. Light appetizers, wine, and beer, courtesy of Evanston’s Sketchbook Brewing Co., will be served. A book signing follows the presentation. Copies of Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out will be on sale at the event.

Walter Burt Adams
On Location: A Tour of Historic Evanston
Walter Burt Adams Bus Tour
Thursday, October 17 & November 14
Bus departs at 1:30 pm, returns at 3:00 pm
Bus departs from the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Avenue, Evanston, IL
Admission: $20/ $15 for EHC and/or Levy Senior Center members
Contact the Levy Senior Center to reserve your spot today – 773-841-9898. Space is limited.

The Evanston History Center is pleased to announce an exciting collaboration with the City of Evanston and the Levy Senior Center Foundation to explore Evanston through the framework of iconic artist Walter Burt Adams. EHC’s executive director Eden Juron Pearlman will narrate a bus tour of locations depicted in Adams’ paintings. Active from the 1930s to the 1970s, Adams found beauty in everyday scenes and left a lasting legacy of mid-century Evanston.