Hannah Withers, Caretaker of Maxine’s Tap Room (Interview 18/100)

"I think food and music and spaces and all of those things breed community and I find community really fascinating," said Hannah Withers of her love of merging her career and her passions. With the help of her 50/50 partner in both business and life, Ben, she has helped found, fuel, and fire up community through spaces and events all around her much like her mother, a founding member of The Mother Folkers, and much like Maxine Miller, the founder and namesake of Maxine's Tap Room of which Hannah is currently named "Caretaker." Back before the women could open bank accounts without a man's signature and decades before widespread laws against women bartending were overturned, Maxine Miller, opened a bar in Fayetteville, Arkansas as a single woman. That was back in 1950. Back when one of the regulars would tie up his mule outside of the bar. While Maxine is no longer with us, her legacy continues to live on.

She has it all. She has passion. She has drive. She has transparency. She has creative ideas that draw people to her. She has lessons that she learned the hard way. She has the respect and admiration of the people around her. She's got so much to teach all of us. And she's another one of those life-long learners that will likely continue to have more and more wisdom to pass on to us all. Cheers to never growing out of learning & loving.

I don't know if I could ever sum up all the things I took away from this conversation and I find new nuggets that burrow into my brain each time that I listen back to her. Enjoy!

Shout outs to:

• Kate Gerwin - Owner of Happy Accidents in Albuquerque, NM
• Marilyn Megenity - Founder of Mercury Cafe in Denver, CO

Bonus shout outs to:

• Ben = her 50/50 partner in everything
• Jacques Pepin 
• Jacques Torres
• Lisa Corrigan - legacy endowment scholarship at the University of Arkansas in honor of Maxine’s
• Little Bread Co.
• Leverett Lounge 
• Mockingbird Kitchen 
• Atlas the Restaurant 

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