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For the ‘thrill’ of it all: Prohibition era rum-runner Hilda Stone was dubbed the ‘Queen of the Bootleggers’

On Dec. 5, the U.S. will celebrate 93 years since the ratification of the 21st Amendment and subsequent closure of alcohol prohibition in the United States. The failed, 14-year experiment known as prohibition brought an array of larger-than-life gangsters, smugglers and rum-runners into the limelight in Franklin County, providing the jazz era with the one […]

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