Live, Learn, and Lunch: How CT Thumbed its Nose at Prohibition with Amazing Tales, Mike Allen

When the U.S. decided that alcohol was no longer benefiting society, every state – except two – voted to amend to the Constitution to outlaw the manufacturing and sale of liquor. Connecticut did not support the change and many persons in CT found creative means around the law. Long Island Sound afforded numerous opportunities for rum runners and bootleggers to smuggle alcohol into Connecticut and it was consumed throughout the entire state, in hundreds of speakeasies, with very few federal officers assigned to enforce the ban. Hear the whole story at this presentation.