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...fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen go dry; then Glenlivet's men use the idle time to cut the next distilling season's peat fuel from the nearby bog of Faemussach...
...Smugglers. Glenlivet men have been cutting Faemussach peat since 1824, when Grant's great-grandfather, George Smith, took out a license for his illicit still and legalized it as The Glenlivet Distillery. This won the enmity of his Highland neighbors, who ran some 200 bootleg stills in the glen, and smuggled their spirits to the Lowlands rather than pay duty to His Majesty's revenue officers. Highland hijackers waylaid Glenlivet's pony trains as they packed legal whisky over the craggy hills to Perth and Edinburgh. George Smith, a brace of loaded pistols strapped to his waist...
...take West Side Drive into Henry Hudson Parkway, go through two toll gates, follow sign to Connecticut, turn right off highway on to Cross Country Parkway, continue about mile and half, follow sign Kimball Avenue, Bronxville, exit to right, left on Kimball Avenue, go straight, turn right on the Glen Washington Road...
Freshman Ebby Dane placed 27th in the amateur division and 30th in the open class in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association's Giant Slalom Championships held yesterday at Mad River Glen, Vermont...
CHARLES H. IRISH, D.D.S. Watkins Glen...