The Season of Good Cheers

If you’re like us, the holidays involve a fair amount of to-ing and fro-ing to parties, open houses, and dinners.  And if you’re really like us, those events involve a cocktail or two. Naturally, we’re drawn to cocktails with some history behind them. The Tom and Jerry is an old-timey winter standby that’s similar to eggnog. Some ...

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Holiday sparkle the Salvage way

  Lately I’ve had a bit of an obsession with battery jars.  These interesting glass jars were used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to hold ‘wet’ cell batteries.  Battery technology at that time was limited to bits of metal submerged in a mild acidic or alkaline solution.  The resulting chemical reaction created ...

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