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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Kathryn Smith

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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Myra Jackson's Diary: August 6-9, 1932

A big step forward for baby Betty today, her mother wrote.

“Took Betty’s pacifier from her today. She broke one so I told her it was ‘gone, gone now.’ I had anotherone or she would have screamed for it. As it was she didn’t cry for it. She...

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Myra Jackson's Diary: August 3-5, 1932

The Civic Club that Myra belonged to had a meeting with 36 ladies present. “They served bottled drinks & sandwiches & lady fingers,” she reported. “The bread of cake was yellow.” Obviously the refreshments were the highlight of the meeting!...

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Myra Jackson's Diary: Aug. 1-2, 1932

Myra made baby Betty a sunsuit today and thought it was so “cute on her” that the next day she made two more, one white and one yellow. The biggest influencer in little girls’ clothing in the 1930s was the young actress Shirley Temple, show...

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Myra Jackson's Diary: July 31, 1932

On this last day of July, a Sunday, Myra attended Sunday School, then her sister and brother-in-law joined her family for “dinner up at Mama’s.” They got a heavy rain that afternoon that lasted until night-time.

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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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