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Newton author tells story of her grandma, an unlikely bootlegger


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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 St ....

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How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism


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The American flag has become a symbol of right-wing politics. Democrats can insist otherwise, but honest observers will concede that when they see a house, vehicle, or wardrobe adorned with the stars and stripes, it probably belongs to an American whose conception of patriotism allows everyone to have easy access to a firearm arsenal, but medicine to remain a high-priced luxury item. 
The success of the right wing in their co-optation of patriotic language and symbols reached its absurd zenith on Jan. 6 when a mob of domestic terrorists proudly waved the flag and chanted,  USA!  before assaulting police officers and attempting to murder elected officials in their aspiration to replace American democracy with a dynastic dictatorship.  ....

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