Description There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland.
Walsh presents this colorful history..
Author Michael T.
Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore," drew national attention criticizing the new law.
Journalist H.
L.
Rumrunners were frequent on the Chesapeake Bay as bootleggers populated the city streets.
Speakeasies emerged at Frostburg\'s Gunter Hotel and at Baltimore\'s famed Belvedere Hotel, whose famous owls\' blinking eyes would notify its patrons if it was safe to indulge in bootleg liquor.
Maryland was the only State to not pass a "baby" Volstead enforcement act.
The Free State was defiant in its protest from thoroughly wet Governor Albert Ritchie to esteemed Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons.
Description There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland
