Word: cottonwoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Besides offering brew-on-premises services, The Modern Brewer sells equipment for home-brewing and operates its own brewery. Local yuppie restaurants like the Cottonwood Cafe, Redbones, Gargoyles and East Coast Grill carry the brewery's final product...
...calling on their medicine men. "Western medicine has its limitations," observes president Zah. Last week 69-year-old Mark Charlie carried two orange toolboxes filled with crystals, arrowheads and other totems into a canyon at Red Rock State Park to conduct a "blessing way." He lighted a fire of cottonwood, chanted prayers and read the ashes. When he emerged, he promised the park would be safe. At week's end there were no new cases of the mysterious illness. But no one was sure whether the blessing had taken hold or whether it was simply a lull before the evil...
...grass, the trees, especially those goofy cottonwood things that fly around here," laments Dorothy Jiganti, 48, an oncology nurse at Chicago's Grant Hospital. "It absolutely kills me." If you forget to take your pills, she says, "you just feel like you've got a cold all the time. It's a constant feeling of blah...
...hikes to the spot near Bazaar where, in 1931, the Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men died in a plane crash, after which local people carried pieces off for keepsakes. A woman tells him about running a health-food restaurant in a little burg called Cottonwood Falls: "We never did get the farmers to eat alfalfa sprouts. They know silage when they...