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“Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woman’s Daring in Twentieth-Century America,” by Marian Leah Knapp
In the early 1920s, men would come knocking on the back door of Rebecca Goldberg’s Wilmington, home late into the evenings.
The first was a local painter who stopped by after a long day at work. Later his friends came, and then word spread quietly throughout the town. They all came for the same precious, illicit thing: An alcoholic drink in a world that had gone dry.
Rebecca Goldberg was an immigrant, an entrepreneur, and a survivor. This mother of seven was also an unlikely bootlegger, but like so many others who left difficult circumstances in Europe to come to America, she didn’t flinch in the face of hardship. By necessity, she enlisted her offspring in her “business.” Now her granddaughter, Newton resident Marian Leah Knapp, tells Rebecca’s fascinating story in her new novel, “Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woma
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