Moonshine by Moonlight: Iowa’s Bootlegging Legacy

Learn all about Iowa’s bootlegging history with author Ann Hanigan

𝐀𝐬𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲: 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟓𝐭𝐡 @ 𝟔:𝟎𝟎 𝐩𝐦

By the light of the moon, hidden in the rolling hills of 1923 Carroll County, Iowa, illegal whiskey flows from homemade stills. Defying Prohibition, farmers-turned-entrepreneurs turn their hog houses, barns, and basements into moonshine operations to feed their families and save their land while dodging the ever-present federal regulators. To stay ahead of the law, the distillers band together into a syndicate, led by an anonymous bootleg king building his empire of whiskey.

Federals against farmers, Wets against Drys, Protestants against Catholics, Moonshine by Moonlight weaves together a fictional story of the bootlegging era while representing the authentic legacy of Iowa’s underground whiskey industry during one of the most raucous periods of American history.

RSVP Recommended by not required: dubcolib.org/event/moonshine-by-moonlight-iowas-bootlegging-legacy

You may also like the following events from Dubuque County Library:

• Next Wednesday, 14th May, 05:00 pm, Teen Mario Kart Tournament🍄 in Asbury
• Next Saturday, 17th May, 11:00 am, STEM Time! in Asbury

Also check out other Business events in Asbury, Music events in Asbury, Arts events in Asbury.