Historic Celebration Weekend continues!

While yesterday we focused on the actual building, today we are turning the light on some of the people (and animals) that have played a role here throughout the history of the building.

Here’s a small collection of a few of them:

1) A local parade featuring the Mineral Spring Brewery draft horses. A young man watches in the foreground.

2) Ray Lieder Jr. (third generation brewmaster) standing by a Mineral Spring Beer truck. Photo taken in the early 1950s.

3) A group of workers stand outside the back door of the brewery building. Among them are Bud Lieder (middle row, third from left) and Ray Lieder Jr. (middle row, far right) in the 1950s.

4) Ken Colwell weaving on a loom when he owned the building and operated “The Looms”. The Looms operated during the mid 1960s until 1990 when it was relocated to downtown Mineral Point.

5) Diana, Claire and Tom Johnston standing in the windows close to the primary fermentation room that was used when the building was an active brewery. Our pottery kiln is just out of view. We’ve been using the building as a studio, home, and gallery since 1991.

One of things (we have many!) but one of the things that we love about this building is that it is always been a building filled with makers.

Being built as a brewery, it was filled with various beer makers for 110 years. Then Ken Colwell, a weaver, weaving and teaching classes on how to weave. And lastly/curently, us! We’ve been making pottery and creating here on our own journey in this building since 1991.