Keywords: Moxie
Item 80362
Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Friendship Media: Green glass bottle with red paper label
Item 80361
Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Friendship Media: Glass Negative
Item 37399
469-471 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Mary Watts Use: Dwelling & Store
Item 36149
25 Cedar Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: George A Etter Use: Dwelling & Store
Exhibit
Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s
Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police
"… Media Green River whiskey bottles hidden in Moxie cases, 1927 Seized at a Yarmouth Inn Collections of Maine Historical Society/Maine Today Media…"
Story
A Florida Flatlander Finds Adventure in Maine (An Excerpt)
by Steve Hood
Humorous reminisces of former adventures in Maine from a Florida retiree
Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
