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Amy will be giving a paper, "There is Nothing Like Dame: The Wives of North Carolina State University, 1919-2009", at theHistory of Education Society Fiftieth Anniversary November 4-7, 2010: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Amy will give a poster presentation, "There is Nothing Like A Dame: The Wives
of North Carolina State University 1919-2009", at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting,January 6-9, 2011 in
Boston.
Amy recently published"American Alcohol Studies Matures: The Class of 1979, Thirty Years of Personal and Historiographical Reflection", inThe Social History of Alcohol and Drugs , Volume 24, No.1 (Winter, 2010).
EVENTS AND APPEARANCES 2009
Thomson Reuters posted a story about Brooklyn Brew, a small start-up selling home brewing kits, that includes comments from myself, Sam Calagione, and Beth Goldstein.
The Summer 2009 issue of Business History Review has a review of Brewing Battles. To read excerpts from it go to Reviews
CROSS POSTINGS
In May, Amy went on from a ten day trip to Israel where she ate, saw sights, and drank beer. She posted about it on musings and also at the website of the Jewish Community of Amherst.
Last night, April 16, 2009, Amy attended the one time showing of Beer WarsU.S. News andd World Report has two posts by Amy about the movie. Yesterday there was an interview of Anat Baron, the movie's director. Today there is a review of the movie and panel discussion. There will probably be more discussion of the movie on the blog so click on musings to check that out.
Amy will be giving a talk, "Jewish Beers and Brewing," March 1 at 3p.m. at the Jewish Community of Amherst , 742 Main Street, Amherst Massachusetts. There will also be a beer tasting and book signing. Free. All welcome!
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs will be publishing the talk Amy gave at the AHA in January.
AHA 123rd Annual Meeting
On January 3 Amy will be giving a talk, "American Alcohol Studies Matures: Thirty Years of Personal and Historiographical Reflection" as part of a panel, "American Alcohol Studies Matures: The Class of 1979, Thirty Years of Reflection." The panel is sponsored by the Alcohol and Drugs History Society which is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. Amy is a founding member. The AHA Annual Meeting is January 2 - 5 in New York City
EVENTS AND APPERANCES 2008
Amy now has a wordpress blog, available on this website by clicking on Musings
To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Repeal, Agence France-Presse interviewed Amy for a story. AFP is a wire service so many places picked up the story. This is a link to Yahoo News.
Here is a link to Kimberly's US News and World Report Onlinestory about Boston Beer, brewers of Sam Adams. She also interviewed Amy for this story. The story is in the December issue on sale now.
In the past month there have been at least three separate occasions when Brewing Battles has appeared on Amazon's top 100 Beer Books.
On August 14, 2008 an interview of Amy, by Robert Townsend, appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constituiton. It was a pleasure to talk with Bob and the interview turned out really well.
Amy at the Vermont Brewers Festival, Burlington Vt.
Amy's Appearances
The first picture is from the Vermont Brewers Festival, Burlington Vt. July 18, 19, 2008
The next two are from Amy's talk at The Jones Library, Amherst, MA, July 10, 2008.
Amy's Book Talk, Jone Library July 2008
Signing Books
Cool Moose
Amy signed books at the Connecticut River Brewers Festival Saturday September 6 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. CRBF is a regional microbrewery festival featuring up to 30 breweries and up to 100 micro brews located along the scenic Connecticut River.
On September 21 Amy gave a book talk and signed books at Beer Table, Brooklyn N.Y. Beer Table is a very small,nice beer bar with a wide selection of domestic and imported beers.
Both events featured custom designed bookmarks.
Beer Taps
The Brewing Battles Book Party was held on February 27th at the Amherst Brewing Company. About thirty people attended and Amy sold a lot of books. Amy read about Schlitz and Pabst beer from the book. A good time was had by all. To see a few pictures from the party click on Musings.
On February 6 Amy spoke at the monthly meeting of the Somers Antique Bottle Club, Somers Connecticut. There was a good crowd, it was very intersting to see everyone's bottle collection, and the group enjoyed hearing Amy speak about the beer can.
Sick Beer Bottle
Free Beer Thermometer
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Bookstore, Amherst, Massachusetts has Brewing Battles for sale if anyone wants to buy the book the old-fashioned way.
Both the tin thermometer and the book are for sale at Beerbooks.com
Brewing Battles was recently reviewed in Minnesota History and Mid-Atlantic Brewing News. To read the reviews go to Algora Publishing. Click on Reviews to read reviews of Brewing Battles in Choice, the Springfield Republican, Appellation Beer Blog, Reference & Research Book News, A Good Beer Blogand notices about the book in the Valley Advocate and the Amherst Bulletin. The book has also received reviews in American Brewer,Yankee Brew News, Celebrator Beer News, and Journal of the Brewery History Society (UK).
