New Kid's View
Family lured Jerrianne and her husband to South Milwaukee in 2002 from Southern California where she worked as, first, a journalist, then, as a court information officer. She now stays busy with media-relations consulting, playing with her three grandchildren (part of the lure), writing, discovering her new environs, and hoping her garden will produce before the first fall frost.
Celebrate New Year's Celticly With the Garlic Mustard Pickers
Here's New Year's news from South Milwaukee neighbors, the Garlic Mustard Pickers:
You have two opportunities to hear The Garlic Mustard Pickers on New Year's Eve.
First:
Celebrate Ireland's New Yea
When it's 6:00 PM in Milwaukee, it's 12:00 Midnight in Dublin.
The location:
O'Lydia's Pub
338 South 1st St in Milwaukee (Roughly a half mile north of the Allen Bradley factory.)
5:00-6:30 PM
O'Lydia's has a fine menu of Irish-style pub food, including a broad line of sandwiches and a great Shepherd's Pie. Every "Irish" bar serves Guinness, but O'Lydia's is the only place I've been in that also routinely offers Lakefront Brewery's "Snake Chaser" stout. That's being seriously Irish, and it supports a local small brewery, too.
At 6:31 PM the band packs up and makes a quick drive 2.5 miles to the west. After a check on the hammered dulcimer (which can require up to 120 separate tuning peg adjustments), we start our second gig:
Second:
Celebrate a Family-Friendly New Year's Eve at the Mitchell Park Domes
524 South Layton Blvd (remember that's actually South 27th Street), Milwaukee
7:15-10:00 PM
The Domes charges an modest admission: $5 for kids and senior citizens, $6.50 for adults
We've done "New Year's at the Domes" a couple of times in years past. If the format has remained unchanged, this makes a good family outing. We've been told that on this New Year's the Domes will close up shortly after 10:00 PM, so it looks like we'll celebrate a Cape Breton New Year's. (When it's 10 PM in Milwaukee, it's 12 midnight in Nova Scotia.) Perhaps that's appropriate - Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song, and there are none so Scottish as the Scots who settled Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
We hope to see you on New Year's Eve, and we wish you a Happy Holidays and a great 2012.
Here are some links...
for the band:
http://www.thegarlicmustardpickers.org/
for O'Lydia's:
http://olydias.com/
for The Mitchell Park Domes:
http://county.milwaukee.gov/MitchellParkConserva10116.htm
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