Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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The diaries of ordinary people of the 1920s-1940s, the outsize personalities and culture of those eras, occasional book reviews and economic commentary, and cocktails to wash it all down.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Sample of daily diary posts, occasional cocktail recipes and history book reviews

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Full daily diary posts, with ability to comment and question. Subscribe for a year and receive a free book.
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Paid Subscription Plans

  • $50 a year
  • $5 a month

About Kathryn Smith

Author of biographies, history mystery series and two books on Prohibition, "Baptists and Bootleggers" and "Methodists and Moonshiners," both with cocktail recipes.

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