Silas Cully's Tavern Tales: Stories, Jokes, and Recipes from a Nineteenth Century Barkeeper

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Summary: A Funny Treasure!
Review: If only all history books were this fun. Mr. Osterberg (as tavern-keeper Silas Cully) does a wonderful job of making the political and social history of the mid-19th Century come joyfully alive. His perspective from behind the bar is always unique and entertaining.

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Summary: History Lite
Review: Silas Cully's Tavern Tales is a first person presentation by a man who works at Henry Ford Museum's Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It is told as if the reader is a customer in his 1850 barroom and is heavy on jokes and funny stories. There are recipes and songs, too. It really puts the reader into the Nineteenth Century. This books is aimed at history buffs and re-inactors.

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Summary: step back into the 1850's
Review: what a wonderful book, you wont stop laughing at silas's stories
if you have ever spent an afternoon with silas (bert) you can imagine that you are at the eagle tavern inn in the 1850's, if not BUY THE BOOK!... and then go to the eagle tavern @greenfield village and spend an afternoon being entertained by silas. you wont regret it.