Right, there are a bazillion tutorials online about how to DIY wood dowel hooks quickly and easily, say in 15 minutes, or I suppose in this case these are more like wall display pegs, but this DIY is different. 
How so"
Well, maybe not technically different and no doubt the process is nearly the same but these specific DIY wood dowel hooks/display pegs hold something extraordinary. 
Spottily I?ve mentioned in extreme passing, and more directly, that I had something special, that something special was going to happen.  And it did.  
So ultimately this post is briefly about these wood dowel wall display pegs, heh, but mostly about what?s on them:  a wood barrel stave piece. 
Huh"  What?s so exciting about this wood barrel stave piece"  It came from Glenfarclas Distillery in Scotland and I was there and brought it home.  Top, outside.  Bottom, burnt inside.  It still smelled of whisky when I got it home.What's a wood stave"  It's a piece of the wood barrel used to age whisky.  In this instance, barrels made in Spain used for sherry then used for whisky in Ballindalloch.
See, back in the 1940?s, my great uncle Wesley Polk was the Chief State Highway Engineer downstate there in Springfield, Illinois.  I discovered in my research that he even worked on a portion of Route 66.  
Anywhoo, he passed away in 1965; I never met him. 
My parents went down and collected items fro...