the new game, part two

Recipe for Hoosier bourbon: take one old gym (Richland Township in Newtown), add Indiana sweet corn (grown on the Fruits family farm), distill in German copper/stainless pot stills & age in charred white oak barrels from Minnesota. Then transport the barrels down the stairs (below the former gym) into the old cafeteria where they will age at a constant temperature for several years.  Finally, bottle the whiskey (in French bottles, stored in the gym), name it after the state road that runs in front of the old school (Old 55) and offer for sale some of the best bourbon north of the Mason Dixon line.  It somehow seems appropriate that all of this would happen where a team named the Red Devils played their games and although they were short lived (1942-1965), the Devils saw a large degree of hardwood success in the 1950s, winning Sectional crowns in 1950, 1952 and 1957.  And now, a new kind of success.  © Chris Smith