The Buzz

Remember the Mark Twain novel Tom Sawyer?

Remember how Tom got a fence whitewashed by making his friends think whitewashing was fun and they had to try it?

The folks at Maker’s Mark have read the book.

On Sept. 6-7, the bourbon distiller is hosting the first Maker’s Mark On the Rocks! workshop to teach “the ancient craft of dry-laid masonry.”

Participants will attend seminars to get the basics and then — here comes Tom Sawyer! — they will rebuild rock fences and retaining walls on the grounds of the Loretto distillery.

Some of those fences and walls are more than 200 years old.

The larger purpose is “to build interest in the preservation of dry-stone architecture in Kentucky,” says Maker’s Mark and its partners, the Dry Stone Conservancy and the Kentucky Preservation Conference.

To register, go to www.drystone.org. The fee is reduced for those who also register for the Kentucky Preservation Conference Sept. 4-6 in Bardstown. Go to www.heritage.ky.gov to learn more about that.

By the way, if you go, you might want to enhance your wardrobe by picking up a Maker’s Mark T-shirt.

A new survey by the California advertising agency David & Goliath (honest!) found that Maker’s Mark was the No. 5 most popular liquor brand on T-shirts, behind Jack Daniel’s, Crown Royal, Jagermeister, and Ketel One.

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