- Run the Rum In
Discover the tricks of the trade—smuggling the liquor and evading the law. Learn of the dealings of Al Capone, the “Real McCoy,” and the “Gulf Stream Pirate.” Discover how NASCAR got its start, and a Lighthouse Point restaurant with a past steeped in rum running.
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In this history of Prohibition in South Florida, author Sally J. Ling explores the impact of bootleggers and moonshiners on South Florida, presenting tales of rum running and lawbreaking as told through personal and written accounts. And, she explains how South Florida played a prominent role in supplying the rest of the country with illegal booze.
“Regarded purely on the surface, the story of the ‘Whisky Running Industry’ is simply a first-class boy’s shocker. We are back again in the days of the buccaneers. Smugglers and pirates, grim tragedy and broad farce, craft knavery and audacity that sticks at nothing, secret islands and gold beyond the dreams of avarice: even romance in the person of the beautiful brunette, Miss Grace Lythgoe, a young lady of ‘striking personality and refined tastes,’ known to her associates as ‘Cleopatra, the Queen of the Bootleggers,’—they are all here.” The London Daily News, 1921
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Run the Rum In, led to author Sally J. Ling’s participation in the National Geographic Channel’s documentary “Gangsters,” and to become associate producer on WLRN’s (PBS Miami) documentary “Prohibition and the South Florida Connection,” which aired November 2011.
