The Tavern and its owner have an understanding
ABINGDON, Va. — “You talking about ghost stories?” Max Hermann asked me.
“I’m not a believer in ghosts,” Hermann said plainly. “If I can’t touch, see or smell you, you do not exist, OK?”
OK.
But wait — what about all those ghost tales surrounding The Tavern?
This structure has been standing on Abingdon’s Main Street since 1779. The handsome, antique building has served as a post office, a bank, a store — and, yes, a tavern.
Just like it is today.
Hermann opened a restaurant here in 1993.
“This building came up for lease. And I jumped on it and just fol-lowed my dream,” he said.
Hermann served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. Then he “gambled eve-rything that I had saved up,” he said. “If it would have failed, I would have been broke.”
Just like his predecessors.
