Janet Golden wrote: > >I recently began some research in the folklore collection at the >Library of Congress. Several of the collections have some interesting >interviews that may be useful to members of the ATHG. The collection >Italian Americans in the West contains a number of oral interviews >with individuals who have worked in small family wineries for many >generations --including during Prohibition. The interviews from the >Maine collection have a lot of references to liquor smuggling from >Canada, and the West Virginia interviews have some discussion about >moonshine and also an interview with a former revenue agent. I don't >know if these interviews are well known to members of >this group--I just began to work in alcohol and temperance >history--but I found the interviews fascinating. > >Janet Golden >[log in to unmask] > Thanks for this interesting and useful post, Janet! I've saved it for future reference. Yours, Ron Roizen