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

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Free. Donations Welcome
* Pre-registration required for lunch count.

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.

Litchfield Community Center
421 Bantam Road
Litchfield, CT 06759
860-567-8302
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