this free land, even down to the local congregational level. For Zion Lutheran Church in Manheim, this annual Festival of the Red Rose provides such an opportunity. A recent work of fiction contained this remark by one of the characters in the story: "The past does not buy food to eat or clothes to

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream