Nicknamed “Liquor Island,” Long Island was a center for bootlegging and rumrunning for the New York metropolitan area during Prohibition. Amy Kasuga Folk’s book Rumrunners of Suffolk County: Tales from Liquor Island shares highlights from her book and inserts a fictional detail in her four choices at the end of the episode. Will you identify the fiction? Will I?
Listeners will be astonished by what they learn, and it’s mostly true!
Good one Laura!
I will enjoy checking this out more.
Thank you, Carole! Amy was such a great guest, and her book is fascinating!
My Great Uncle Sammy owned a farm in the Hamptons with water frontage. He was a moonshiner and depot for rumrunners from Canada. He was arrested in 1930 and was listed as the largest bust in Suffolk. The family had some wild stories about his escapades.
Hi there! Family stories are the best! Check out Amy’s book to see if his “bust” is included. 🙂