Farm to table: The legacy of Winshaw Vineyard's storied past

Dr William Charles Winshaw, Charles, was an intriguing man. An American by birth from Pulaski County in the great state of Kentucky, he was born in 1871. The son of a doctor, he ran away from home at the age of 12, and I admit, I went down a Huckleberry-Finn-shaped hole reading a document entitled 'Gold Dust and Grapes' by Eric Rosenthal, chronicling his life. From a runaway boy on the Tennessee River with his Huckleberry Finn-type friend Rastus.

"He was sunshine most always - I mean he made it seem like good weather."- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In his time, he was an errant boy, gold prospector, and professional gambler, a job that funded his medical studies at Tulane College in New Orleans , where he attained a degree after four years. He then set up a medical practice in Elizabethtown in New Mexico, where he became convinced that he would never make a profit as a doctor, and travelled to Klondike in Canada, once again in search of gold , then Alaska, then worked on a project for Theodore Roosevelt in Mexico.

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