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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Kathryn Smith
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A bite-size taste of history each day based on the diaries of ordinary people of the 1920s-1940s, plus book reviews, economic commentary, and an occasional vintage cocktail recipe to wash it all down.

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Mrs. Gorin’s Diary: Oct. 31, 1932

They put pumpkins on the porch; news of the day would make your hair stand on end

Two of Tank’s friends came over “this afternoon and stayed for supper with us and had fun with Halloween things and pumpkins which we put on the porch,” Mrs....

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Mrs. Gorin’s Diary: Oct. 30, 1932

Her husband takes train for Richmond; fundraisers held for poor people

Mrs. Gorin had the same sort of Sunday with church and family visits as she usually did today, with the exception that she took her husband to the train station so he c...

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Mrs. Gorin’s Diary: Oct. 28-29, 1932

The picture postcard above, mailed in 1933, is being offered by a dealer on eBay.

Today the visting Mendillos were leaving at 1:30 for their home in Connecticut, so Mrs. Gorin took them on one last sight-seeing trip, to Louisville’s...

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Mrs. Gorin’s Diary: October 27, 1932

She takes her friends to Hayfield; riots break out in London

Mrs. Gorin was so busy heading the ticket committee for a charity dinner at her church that she was late to a friend’s luncheon. “She said she’d save it for and did,” she wrote....

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Mrs. Gorin’s Diary: Oct. 26, 1932

Lewis Sr. takes a friend to see Man o’ War, the most famous horse of its day

The Mandillos, friends from Connecticut, were visiting in Louisville and had accompanied Mrs. Gorin on several of her outings in the past week. Today she took Mrs...

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    Author of biographies, history mystery series and two books on Prohibition, "Baptists and Bootleggers" and "Methodists and Moonshiners," both with cocktail recipes.

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