New England Bootlegging

Moonshine, bathtub gin, hooch, and good ol’ fashioned whiskey. During prohibition, these words meant a lot of things to New Englanders – but mostly, they meant opportunity. Tonight on The Front Porch, we’ll explore the ins-and-outs of rum running and what it meant for people living so close to the Canadian border. Our guests include filmmaker Jay Craven whose new film Disappearances is based on Howard Frank Mosher's novel by the same name. It's the story of high stakes whiskey gambling and one family's mysterious past during Prohibition. We'll talk about the fictional and factual world of rumrunners with filmmaker Jay Craven and writer Scott Wheeler, author of Rumrunners & Revenuers: Prohibition in Vermont.