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Strike Up the Band is a spirited chronicle of the Roaring Twenties in New York City, but it fails to develop an integrated narrative

The story of George Remus’s life truly does read like a movie script.

Recently detailed by "When Ghosts Made Moonshine" author Chris Barber, loggers in the remote, deeply forested northeastern region of North Carolina supplied highly regarded whiskey to speakeasies up the East Coast during Prohibition.

Wine served at the White House has played a critical role in hospitality, diplomacy, and U.S. history.

50 years agoTimes-Tribune, Jan. 30, 1974OATS will begin hereA Worth County Older Adults Transportation Service (OATS) bus will be operating in the area on or before Feb. 18, according to

Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages with the aim of obtaining partial or total abstinence through legal means. Most countries that have experimented with the ban have soon lifted it, including the United States. Learn more about prohibition.

Salvatore Morrella, Joseph Sapia and John Russo told police they were fruit merchants on their way back to Amsterdam from New York City with what they said was a load of grapes when they were stopped by authorities in Hudson, according to The Daily Gazette on Sept. 3, 1921.

After subzero wind chills, frozen pipes, 4 pm sunsets and months of gray skies, it's time to ask yourself: Wanna get away? If you're searching...

On this day in 1920, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, ushering in a 13-year period known as Prohibition.

On this day in 1920, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, ushering in a 13-year period known as Prohibition.