Rumrunning, Bootlegging and More Criminal History of ‘Liquor Island’
For Amy Kasuga Folk, the Southold Town Historian in Long Island, it pays to know the difference between the Prohibition terms rumrunning and bootlegging. As she explains in her book “Rumrunning in Suffolk County,” rumrunning is about boats bringing verboten liquor to shore from ships moored at sea, where the bootleggers pick it up and…