Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Cocktail of the Week: The Capone Revisited

Cocktail of the Week: The Capone Revisited

We mark the gangster's birth, death and the sale of his Miami Beach home

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Jan 19, 2022
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One of the most unusual research trips I took for my book Baptists and Bootleggers: A Prohibition Expedition Through the South…with Cocktail Recipes was a trek to identify places the gangster Al Capone laid his nasty head. The two that can verified without a doubt are the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and the mansion he bought in 1928 on Palm Island in B…

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