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Nutmeg for New York
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New York History On February 2nd 1653 New Amsterdam received municipal rights thus becoming a city. We at present affectionately refer to it as New York. The original span (acquired by a wily Dutchman, Peter Minuit) was only a section of Lower Manhattan, but has throughout its tumultuous past been known as Fort Amsterdam, New […]
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Raise a glass to Prohibition
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What is Prohibition? On January 16th 1919, Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the 18th Amendment to the States Constitution. Its primary objection was to prohibit the “…manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States…” Congress enforced this law by passing the “Volstead […]
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