Leave them their sad stone angels, their tattered flags, and dirty sheets. Their crushed drums and tuneless fifes. Painted cannons, broken swords, and rusted bayonets. Hearts that deserved breaking, souls unredeemed.
This vicious conflict would come to a bloody conclusion on Christmas night 1925 at the Adonis Social Club an Italian-owned speakeasy in Brooklyn when Al Capone settled his long-standing feud with the Irish Mob.
Can you imagine receiving a stiff fine for wishing someone Merry Christmas? It sounds like something from a dystopian future but this scenario is actually from 17th-century Boston, where Christmas was banned for over two decades in the 1600s.
"Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History" chronicles the widespread horrors of this outbreak, across the U.S. and the world. Father Patrick Brosnan was an Irish immigrant priest who ended up serving in the Irish American stronghold of Butte, Montana.