Last week we posted about “Rum Running,” a new documentary which was broadcast last weekend on CBCs “Land and Sea.” It is now online and definitely worth watching. It is a fascinating look at when many sailors in Nova Scotia stopped fishing and became international smugglers during Prohibition in the US in the 1920’s and 30’s. Click here to watch the 21 minute documentary.
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You can still get your rum in Lunenburg. Check out the pub there called the “Knot”.
The funny thing, that I did not know prior to watching the documentary, was that Canada also had Prohibition statutes of varying sorts during the period but did no ban the manufacture of booze.
Of course, even today,in Lynchburg, TN, home of Jack Daniels whiskey, you can’t buy a drink, because it is Moore County which is dry.