All posts tagged "Prohibition"
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11.5K1Crime and ScandalJ.J. Van Alen Finds a Wife — But Not His Own
J.J. Van Alen served as a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. But never more so than when he took up...
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9.4KCrime and ScandalVermont’s Disappearing/Reappearing Catherine Packard: A Tale of Bigamy and Bootlegging in the Roaring ’20s
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
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35.1K1MassachusettsSamuel Adams – The Last Puritan Fights the American Revolution Twice
Samuel Adams, the troublemaking firebrand who stirred the common rabble into supporting the American Revolution, became known as the last Puritan late...
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20.6K1Business and LaborSquirrel Nut Zippers, the Vintage Candy That Tried To Make a Comeback
Squirrel Nut Zippers, born in Massachusetts and named after a Vermont drunk, left for Texas in 1999 and then returned to their...
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65.5K12Arts and LeisureThe Six Oldest Restaurants in New England
The six oldest restaurants in New England include taverns that served hungry travelers and a diner that fed mill workers after their...
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29.1K3ConnecticutThe 1919 Christmas Eve Massacre and the Mobster Who Got Away With Murder
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1919 a tidal wave of patients began showing up at the hospitals in Western Massachusetts...
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