An approximate headcount of attendees has been requested, so please contact Doug Holub if you plan to attend. The November seminar will be a discussion of homebrew and electing officers for 2001. The Rest of the Story On a stormy Friday night last September, three friends enjoyed fine food and fresh beer in a relatively new brewpub. A new brewpub with a built in history. The beers, with names like Southbound Nut Brown, Steamboat Stout, and Colonel Park's Pale Ale, complemented the train and riverboat pictures and artifacts.
Some people criticize the instant hometown atmosphere given to new chain restaurants . . .
The river port and railroad town founded in 1849 by Colonel Parks on the Missouri river served hemp traders, fur trappers, river boats, settlers, indians, and farmers. Downtown, next to the railroad tracks at the bottom of the hill, the Park College Power Plant began providing electricity and heat to the town and its namesake school in 1918. Operated by the college students as a means to pay tuition, the power plant at Two Main Street ran continuously into the 1960s, when it was replaced by the modern facility behind the fire station. During the 1970s and early 80s the old power plant building housed a printing company. In the early 1980s the Missouri river, whose commerce sustained the town in the olden days, flooded much of downtown and caused the printing operation to close.