Since its harder to find, I often resort to Club Soda with Blood Orange syrup (both Monin and Torani carry a blood orange flavor syrup) Tea: I make ice tea with a Peach and Mango white tea from Lipton
Pliny the Elder (2379 CE) considered rue ( ruta ) to be among the chief medicinal plants, with numerous applications, and also as one of the main ingredients of antidotes to poisoning ( Natural History 20.153)
[9] Most sources state (following Davis' own account) that around 1910/1911, when Davis would have been about 15 years old, he played for several years in a black string band in Greenville, a town some 35 miles from Laurens (though less from Gray Court), comprising (according to Ian Zack) Davis, a fellow blind guitarist of the same age Willie Walker who was also very competent, two violins, a bass violin and a mandolin, which would likely have performed a wide-ranging repertoire of blues, ragtime, dance tunes, vaudeville or minstrel show songs, plus any other popular songs of the day
He also crafts jewelry, and now runs Ronstadt Hardware ("Established in 1888") in downtown Tucson
The drink total has climbed in these final episodes as everyone toasted the vanishing era