✦ OUR LITTLE LEDGER ✦
Wilhelm,
1897.
Glove maker. Norwegian. Brooklyn-bound.
He left Bergen with a trunk of leather, the address of a cousin, and the vague conviction that hard work and patience could turn one life into a different one.
That is what aging in oak does, too. Coffee enters the cask as one thing, sits with the wood and the ghost of bourbon for ninety days, and emerges as something the original beans could not have imagined for themselves.
A leap. In a bottle.
HE LEFT
Bergen, NO
23 APRIL 1897
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HE ARRIVED
Brooklyn, NY
11 MAY 1897