Wednesday Wanderer

Is Our Lack of Historical Context Killing People?

The story is told, in 1872, at the christening of a baby girl in North Frisia, the local parishioners wanted to hide their consumption of rum from their pastor, Gustav Beyer, who routinely chastised them for drinking alcohol. They placed the rum in coffee and added whipped cream to cover the smell of the rum. The pastor discovered his flock’s treachery …