10/14/2026
JOIN US next week as Tim Gaffney presents “BREWING the BURG” on Tuesday, OCTOBER 20, at 7 pm at the RecPlex West auditorium, 965 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd.
Miamisburg’s early brewers made more than b**r; they helped shape the Miami Valley's growth from tiny settlements on America's western frontier to a modern manufacturing region. Their lives reflected the major trends and events that swept the United States, Ohio, and Miamisburg throughout the nineteenth century—including the digging of the Miami and Erie Canal, the American Civil War, the temperance movement, and more. These brewers were never famous. Their names are long forgotten. In some cases, their stories were nearly lost to history. Timothy R. Gaffney, author of Brewing the Burg, Dayton B**r, and other books, brings the Miamisburg brewers back from obscurity and reveals Miamisburg as they saw it in their time.
Tim Gaffney was born in Dayton and has lived most of his life in the Miami Valley, more than half of it in Miamisburg. He attended Dayton public schools and studied journalism at The Ohio State University. He worked at the Piqua Daily Call and the Kettering Oakwood Times before settling at the Dayton Daily News, where he mainly covered military affairs, aviation, and space. He retired at the end of 2006 and worked additional years in nonprofit communications and marketing. He holds a private pilot’s license. Tim and his wife, Jean, have four grown children, two grandchildren, and two dogs.
This FREE presentation is open to the public. Reservations are not required. Donations welcome. Enjoy refreshments starting at 6:30 PM, with the program from 7-8 PM in the auditorium. Please enter through the Joyce Young Center entrance. For more information, call Centerville-Washington History at 937-433-0123 or visit centervillewashingtonhistory.org.
