Conaway: Wolfschmidt and a lifetime
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
My second date with Nora Ballenger was a college rush party in 1967 at the top of the King Cotton Hotel, where the Raymond James/TBD building stands today. Accompanying us was a bottle of Wolfschmidt Vodka. Nora drank Tab. I drank the Wolfschmidt. All of it.
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