Bootlegging and Rum-Running in Jacksonville

[Garden guy]

I have family that ran a still out on one of the islands in the Timucuan preserve way way back...some of the holes where the still was is still there...neat article...goes to show...cocktails will always flow.

[Dashing Dan]

My hometown on Long Island used to have an annual rumrunners festival, with a parade etc  There was at least one boatyard in Freeport that would build patrol boats for the coast guard on one side of their yard - to government specifications - and on the other side of the yard they would build boats designed to go faster than the coast guard patrol boats.

[Ocklawaha]

Rum? Really? Anyone want to visit Colombia with me? Hee Hee

OCKLAWAHA

[ricker]

Shall we sail?

[Dog Walker]

My father's family lived just off Talleyrand during Prohibition.  He told stories about them making homemade raisin wine which he would take down to the Ford Assembly Plant in a little wagon and sell to the workers at lunch time.  He said that they would occasionally get moonshine and fortify the wine with that.  He would put his six year old little brother on top of the bottles in the wagon to hide them.  Because he was twelve or thirteen at the time, he was never bothered by the police.

[BoldBoyOfTheSouth]

Let's has a Bookleggers Festival downtown or in Riverside to showcase Jacksonville's history and have a good time.