Bourbon, Bootlegging & Saloons
by
Dixie Hibbs, Doris Settles
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Some Bardstown, Kentucky residents argued for an alcohol ban as early as the mid-1800s despite the fact that whiskey and bourbon were local staples. When Prohibition finally arrived, independent and inventive residents secretly kept the city wet. A deacon once stored whiskey in a baptismal pool. Seventy-year-old...