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Exploring Appleton--Wisconsin’s oldest brewpub to crystals and angels

KCBX | By Tom Wilmer
Published June 4, 2018 at 4:42 AM PDT
Tom Londsway co-owner Stone Arch Brew House, Appleton, Wisconsin
Thomas Wilmer

Join correspondent Tom Wilmer and Mary Rhode, Marketing & Communications Manager at Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau as they visit Wisconsin’s oldest brewpub Stone Arch Brewpub and Angels Forever—Windows of Light on College Avenue.

Angels Forever has been catering to the cosmic needs of people in the Fox Cities Region for more than 30 years with an intoxicating array of crystals, incense, angels, essential oils and much more.

Angels Forever--Windows of Light, Appleton, Wisconsin
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Angels Forever--Windows of Light, Appleton, Wisconsin

Back in 1858 German immigrant Anton Fischer opened his Appleton brewery.

Today, Fischer’s old stone brewery is the home of Stone Cellar Brewpub under the ownership of father and son partners, Tom and Steve Lonsway.

Stone Arch Brewpub in Appleton, Wisconsin
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Stone Arch Brewpub in Appleton, Wisconsin

  

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Tom Wilmer
Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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