Rum Runners, Governors, Beachcombers and Socialists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rum Runners, Governors, Beachcombers and Socialists write by Jim Lampos. This book was released on 2010-08-01. Rum Runners, Governors, Beachcombers and Socialists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by Old Lyme residents Jim Lampos and Michaelle Pearson, Rum Runners is an intricately researched, intriguing exploration of the beach communities from Griswold Point in the west to Point O' Woods in the east. Illustrations include a map of the Old Lyme shoreline, decades-old newspaper clippings and postcards, and original photographs. Paperback, 88 pages.
Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida
Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida write by . This book was released on 2023-07-24. Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travel back to one of Florida's most colorful, violent, intoxicating, and fun chapters! Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida Volume Two: A Second Batch is the sequel to the acclaimed 2019 book, that showed the fun and inebriated side of the sunshine state's past. Released as part of a new Florida Squeeze book series, this new volume features new images, artwork, and cocktail recipes. Robert Buccellato is the author of seven books including Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida and Jimmy Carter in Plains.
Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties write by Philip P. Mason. This book was released on 2024-05-14. Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan. On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, use, or importation of alcoholic beverages. Yet the resulting peace and tranquility predicted never materialized. The Prohibition experiment failed dismally in the United States, and nowhere worse than in Michigan. The state's close proximity to Canada, where large amounts of liquor were manufactured, made it a major center for the smuggling and sale of illegal alcohol. Although federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies attempted to stop the flow of liquor into Michigan, an astounding seventy-five percent of all illegal liquor brought into the United States was transported across the Detroit River from Canada. Using police and court records, newspaper accounts, and interviews with those who lived during the time, Philip P. Mason has constructed a fascinating history of life in Michigan during Prohibition. He regales readers with stories of the bungled efforts by officials at every level to control the smuggling and sale of illegal alcohol. Most entertaining are the creative smuggling efforts undertaken by citizens of all walks of life-the poor, middle class, and affluent, upstanding citizens and organized criminals and gang members. By 1928 Prohibition was a major issue in the presidential campaign. In 1933, with the support of President Franklin Roosevelt, Michigan's governor William Comstock, and other leaders, the Twenty-first Amendment was passed, repealing Prohibition. Michigan was the first state to ratify the amendment on April 10, 1933, and soon the Detroit River was returned to pleasure boats and fishing and commercial vessels whose holds no longer carried illegal liquor.
Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties
Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties write by Eric Mills. This book was released on 2000. Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was a whiskey-soaked age that was supposed to be dry. Prohibition may have been the law of the land, but hte Chesapeake Bay country was awash in a sea of illegal alcohol. The marshes were teeming with hidden stills, and bootleg liquor was smuggled throughout the waterways and the adjoining countryside by daring men in fast boats and faster cars. Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties is a saga of people--watermen and steamer captains, mob raketeers and "legitimate" buisnessmen--all of them wanting part of the action. In the maze of Bay waters, boats played a key role in that action, many disguised as workboats but built for speed and the ability to out-maneuver the law. On the other side, Billy Sunday and an army of temerpance crusaders campaigned tirelessly to encourage Prohibition, while federal agents and Coast Guardsmen shared the impossible task of enforcing it.
New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners
New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners write by Van R. Field. This book was released on 2004. New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With its many inlets, points, and coves, the coast of New Jersey stood out as a haven for rumrunners brazenly thumbing their nose at the federal government during Prohibition. New Jersey was also recognized as the birthplace of the federal government's shore-based units of the United States Coast Guard, the organization charged at that time with stopping the flow of "demon run" into America. With its vivid images, New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners revives the days when New Jersey's "coasties" stood toe-to-toe with the rumrunners of the 1920s and 1930s.
