Denny Plays on a mahogany Martin guitar and harmonicas and a 1936 wooden body National slide guitar and some fiddle tunes and occasional banjo and mandolin while doing every song he can remember either original or other...Lots of Dylan,Grateful Dead, blues, folkie and bluegrass and improvised on the spot...
Quick trip into Milwaukee this weekend. After hanging out in Brown Deer we went downtown to the historic Brady Street area, it has long been an ethnically diverse community near downtown Milwaukee.
First named in 1840, Brady Street is an architectural tapestry of buildings mostly constructed between 1860 and 1930, creating a distinctive neighborhood that was home to early Polish, German and Irish immigrants. In the 1930's it became more predominantly Italian; some of the businesses still bear the names of these pioneering Italian families today. We made our usual stop at Glorioso’s grocery and deli to stock up on Italian goodies, hot sausage, pastas, cured meats, and lemoncello.
In the 1960s, Brady Street became Milwaukee's very own "Haight-Ashbury" complete with flower children, peace and love, underground political publications and the infamous hippiefest known as the Brady Street Festival that going on next weekend and some great little coffee shops.
We took our goods from Glorioso’s down to Doctors Park for a picnic. The park is in the Fox Point neighborhood of Milwaukee, on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. It shares it's northern border with the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center. The water was calm after an early morning storm had rolled in earlier in the day.
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