By the light of the moon, hidden in the rolling hills of 1923 Carroll County, Iowa, illegal whiskey flows from homemade stills. Defying Prohibition, farmers-turned-entrepreneurs turn their hog houses, barns, and basements into moonshine operations to feed their families and save their land while dodging the ever-present federal regulators. To stay ahead of the law, the distillers band together into a syndicate, led by an anonymous bootleg king building his empire of whiskey.

Federals against farmers, Wets against Drys, Protestants against Catholics, Moonshine by Moonlight weaves together a fictional story of the bootlegging era while representing the authentic legacy of Iowa’s underground whiskey industry during one of the most raucous periods of American history.

Learn all about Iowa’s bootlegging history with author Ann Hanigan at the Asbury library on Monday, May 5th at 6:00 pm.

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