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History looks down from Wisconsin’s Lena tavern walls
One of Russell Demmith’s earliest memories is going to Hunters and Fishermans Bar in Lena as a kid with his father.
“I got a Baby Ruth candy bar that was like half a pound or a quarter pound for a nickel and it would last all day,” he said. “It would be so smoky in here that you couldn’t even see. Everybody was smoking cigarettes, big stogies or corn cob pipes. You could bring a ham in here in the morning and it would be smoked at night.”
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History looks down from Wisconsin’s Lena tavern walls
One of Russell Demmith’s earliest memories is going to Hunters and Fishermans Bar in Lena as a kid with his father.
“I got a Baby Ruth candy bar that was like half a pound or a quarter pound for a nickel and it would last all day,” he said. “It would be so smoky in here that you couldn’t even see. Everybody was smoking cigarettes, big stogies or corn cob pipes. You could bring a ham in here in the morning and it would be smoked at night.”
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History looks down from Wisconsin’s Lena tavern walls
One of Russell Demmith’s earliest memories is going to Hunters and Fishermans Bar in Lena
Christine Thomas: A foggy morning in the turkey woods
The little cabin forests and fields had a great deal of turkey action all winter.<br
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