Umbaugh & Lambert With Confiscated Moonshine

There were other more serious dangers associated with moonshine than being caught by the law. In 1923 there was a still operating on one...

A Dangerous, But Lucrative Business The eighteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect on January 19,1920, instituting a...

(See two previous posts for Part I and Part II on this site.) The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 arrived in Northern Virginia in...

It's Happened Before! Part II (See Part I on this site) In spite of all the optimistic statements offered by government officials that...

This story first appeared in Elan in February 2006. Because it was the winter time flu season I thought it would be appropriate to...