For Amy Kasuga Folks, the Southold City Historian in Lengthy Island, it pays to know the distinction between the Prohibition phrases rumrunning and bootlegging. As she explains in her ebook “Rumrunning in Suffolk County,” rumrunning is about boats bringing verboten liquor to shore from ships moored at sea, the place the bootleggers decide it up and drive it to its vacation spot. This teamwork, she writes, led to the rise of organized crime in the USA. Lengthy Island, at one time referred to as Liquor Island with its in depth shoreline, turned a focus for figures like Dutch Schultz and Charles “Fortunate” Luciano. The ebook covers the interval of 1920 to 1933, yr by yr. A singular characteristic is a listing of the a whole lot of codes utilized by the smugglers from a pocket book {that a} fisherman in Peconic Bay retrieved from the water.
“Rumrunning in Suffolk County: Tales From Liquor Island,” by Amy Kasuga Folks (Historical past Press, $21.99).
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