It started with a swing.Darlene and Louis Felker of Bethlehem needed something to hold an old-fashioned porch swing. A gazebo was perfect.Then they added a pond with three waterfalls. Then, a deck.

According to David Wondrich’s history “Imbibe!,” the Old-Fashioned came about as a reaction to the increasingly complex modern mixology inventions of Gilded Age bartenders: Don’t make me a ...

You see, the Old Fashioned is something of a state treasure in Wisconsin. While the drink largely fell out of favor in coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles in the '70s and '80s, ...