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Helping hands

My Sister's Circle, whose long-term mentors work with young girls, sends its first class off to college

Frederick N. Rasmussen

Frederick N. Rasmussen

The man who brewed city's 1st legal beer

May 4, 2008

All local beer lovers know of the colorful 1879 statue of King Gambrinus, "the patron saint of brewers," which stood in a niche for years above a door of the old J. F. Wiessner Brewery in the 1700 block of N. Gay St., beckoning passersby to enjoy a cold one. It now rests in the Maryland Historical Society.

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