Keywords: bootlegging
Item 105884
Riverside Casino in Southport, Boothbay, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Boothbay Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 135767
Suspected Rum Runner Dixie III, Portland, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1927 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.
Exhibit
Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s
Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island
"… (through a combination of stock sales and bootlegging ventures) and within five short months he erected the building that still stands on Cottage…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police
""After the last box [alleged to be bootlegged alcohol] had been stowed in the truck, the two Donahues were escorted out the door between a pair of…"
