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Hello again! First off, I want to send each and every one of you best wishes on this most auspicious of occasions, the 83rd anniversary of Repeal. On December 5, 1933, at 3:31 pm local time, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment, officially ending Prohibition, the so-called Noble Experiment. Personally, I’ve always been fascinated by the whole story of how Americans came to embark on the collective madness that Prohibition represented, as well as how we finally came to our senses. If you’d like to learn more about this, I heartily recommend Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent, which is an excellent book on the subject. If visual media is more your style, Ken Burns: Prohibition is an excellent documentary adaptation of Okrent’s work.
Either one is an great choice as a way to learn more about this important but largely forgotten era in America’s history. The reason I say that it’s largely forgotten is that I see people continuing to make the sam … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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