One of our favorite bars in town is the Tin & Lint. Its claim to fame is that in the summer of 1970 Don McClean wrote American Pie there. Our favorite booth is the Don McClean booth, which has a plaque with this inscription:
AMERICAN PIE WRITTEN HERE
DON McCLEAN
SUMMER 1970
Local lore says that he wrote the classic song while sitting in that very booth. He first performed the song at Saratoga’s Caffe Lena, the country’s oldest continuously running coffee house (since 1960).
As I mentioned yesterday, one of our stops Saturday night was the T&L, where it’s always a rockin’ good time.
