Upon arrival, participants will receive a copy of “Watson’s Potions & Tinctures,” a recipe book with instructions to create several cocktails. Each participant can choose to create 3 cocktails over the course of the 2 hour event. The recipe book will include both alcoholic and non-alcoholic recipes.
Participants will receive clues to locate cocktail ingredients from the grounds at HWHG. The HWHG groundskeeper will be available to assist any participants who lack a green thumb.
After gathering ingredients from the botanical gardens, participants will enter the apothecary shop, where they can acquire additional ingredients with the assistance of the HWHG apothecary and use special equipment to concoct their potions and tinctures.
Homer Watson House & Gallery acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnaabeg,
and Haudenosaunee peoples; land promised to Six Nations, six miles on each side of the Grand River.
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The Loch Doon area was memorialized in celebrated Scottish poet, Robert Burns piece “Ye banks and braes O’ bonnie Doon”
Ye banks and braes o’ bonny Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary fu’ o’ care?
Thou’lt break my heart, thou warbling bird,
That wantons thro’ the flowering thorn:
Thou minds me o’ departed joys,
Departed, never to return.
Aft hae I rov’d by bonnie Doon,
To see the rose and woodbine twine;
And ilka bird sang o’ its love,
And fondly sae did I o’ mine.
Wi’ lightsome heart I pu’d a rose,
Fu’ sweet upon its thorny tree;
And my fause lover stole my rose,
But, ah! he left the thorn wi’ me.