Weird And Wacky Holidays

National Bootleggers Day - Ep17 - Show NotesToday’s featured holiday is,.National Bootlegger Day.We as a society have a love / hate relationship with alcohol. Descriptive terms range from “Nectar of the gods” to “Demon Rum”.So how did National Bootlegger’s Day come to be?January 17 is the birthday of famed criminal and bootlegger Al Capone, and Templeton Rye Whiskey.In the wake of Prohibition in the early 1920s, a number of residents of a small town in Iowa became outlaws. They produced a smooth tasting, high quality whiskey called Templeton Rye. Templeton, Iowa, a tiny town of 350 became a hotbed of whiskey distilling, producing a product known as, “The Good Stuff”.The term “bootlegger” was born in the 1880s, when midwestern traders would hide flasks of liquor in their boot top when they met with Native Americans to conduct business.After the passage of the 18th Constitutional amendment outlawing the brewing, transportation, and sale of alcohol in 1920, the term was used to describe people who transported al