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The Rumrunners – New Edition

Many local history fans will know about Marty Gervais’ book “The Rumrunners”.

Well there’s a new edition coming out, and the reception for it is tomorrow, in case you’re interested in attending, details below…

Andrew

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  • awesome!

    from what i heard, my Pipi (grandpa) was caught runnin' booze and was banned from the US of A for 50 years!!

  • is this available at any of our local bookstores? I know it's available online, but i'd like to head to a bookstore to buy it and i can't make it out tonite to the launch.

    on a side note another great book about Windsor history is launching in November. Here's the release:

    Join us as we celebrate the launch of the book Impronte: Italian Imprints in Windsor, Thursday, November 12, 2009, 6pm at the Giovanni Caboto Club, 2175 Parent Avenue.
    The guest speaker Giuliano D'Andrea will examine the issue of internment of Italians in WWII.
    Tickets cost $25.00 which includes dinner and must be purchased in advance at:
    Windsor’s Community Museum (519) 253-1812
    Caboto Club (519) 252-8383
    St. Angela Merici Church 519-254-5542
    Book Committee members
    CIBPA Windsor (519) 253-3000, ext. 2164
    The cost of the book is $40.00 including taxes. Books will be sold following the dinner and guest speaker.

  • I picked up a copy of this book Friday Night at Coles bookstore in Tecumseh Mall, I met the author that night a had my copy signed.

  • no johnny t - this is a book about rumrunning in the Windsor-Detroit region. it does have a story in there about the bar "rumrunners" however. A local preist murdered the owner right in the bar. It's a fantastic book and i highly recommend that you pick it up if your interested in that kind of thing.

  • I had my wedding reception at the old randevouse tavern but i used ro go there for a couple beers on a saturday afternoon once when i was there the bar tender showed us these secret rooms where they used to stash the booze until the cops took off down into tecumseh to raid the original t-house and the golden tavern both near lesperance and tecumseh rd the excitement from reading these oldbootlegger stories makes me think if iwas around back then i might have tried to be a bootlegger

  • there's another issue the first original by michael gladstone white that came out in the 70'sbut it's a little harder to find

  • My dad tells me stories of when he was a kid and the rumrunning days. He says his grandmother ran an underground liquor and gambling joint by a lighthouse that on the eastend. I was told there was a piece about her in the rumrunners book. But can't come up with anything her name was Delia Hart.

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