With Allen Dale 'Ole' Olson
September 25, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009, will long be remembered at the Story Inn, one of our sponsors. On that day some eight inches of driving rain poured into the area in less than four hours, swelling retention ponds, washing out bridges and hay fields, and thrusting more than five feet of water into the Inn’s cellars, destroying coolers, refrigerators, computer systems, and wine racks, racks containing one of the finest collection of wines in the southern part of the state. For hours, staff members and volunteers were plucking bottles from the creek, from the puddles, from muck, from culverts, and from various parts of the grounds. While the big story at Story Inn was the overall impact on the gardens, the landscaping, the guest cottages, the bar, and the dozens of volunteers, including hotel guests, baling water, cleaning floors and walls, patching phones and computers, our video deals with our first-ever wine disaster. Or near disaster. Miraculously, few bottles were lost or broken. Even most labels survived, albeit a bit muddy and soiled. Watch the video to learn from Rick Hofstetter, owner of the Story Inn, tell what the night was like and how the wines fared. Be sure to watch the video at top right featuring Dr. Allen Dale 'Ole' Olson and Rick Hofstetter, owner of the Story Inn, Story, IN »
