“A hearse once drew up near customs in Champlain with a flat tire. Two nuns got out of the vehicle and an officer, listening from within the building, heard one of them say in a bass voice, ‘Ain’t this a hell of a place to have a flat tire.’ “ – Allan S. Everest in [...]
Archive for the ‘Prohibition’ Category
A Casket Full of Rye
Posted in Prohibition on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Where Could He Be?
Posted in Art, Prohibition on March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite John Held Jr. engravings, from My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions (1927) by Frank Shay and John Held Jr.
Never Enough
Posted in Food, Literature, Prohibition, Wine on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There is one other thing I know I shall never get enough of — champagne. I cannot say when I drank my first prickly, delicious glass of it. I was raised in Prohibition, which meant that my father was very careful about his bootleggers, but the general adult drinking stayed about pinch-bottle Scotch as safest [...]
