New England used to be the largest Rum producer in the world
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Not A Nice Person
Pink.
The first few generations of my family in this country---we're talking back in the early 1600s---had a merchant ship and trade route between the West Indies and New London, Connecticut supplying rum and whiskey to the Colonies.
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Devil Doc
When Death smiles, Corpsmen smile back
Sugar to molasses to rum to slaves...
https://www.google.com/search?q=boston+molasses+disaster&ie=&oe=
The link will take you to The google search page for the Boston molasses flood of 1919
Doc
https://www.google.com/search?q=boston+molasses+disaster&ie=&oe=
The link will take you to The google search page for the Boston molasses flood of 1919
Doc
That was pretty interesting. I'd "heard" about it but never looked into it. This seems like a good synopsis:
mjolnir01
El Cañón de Latón
I seem to remember hearing something about all of this when I was screeched-in my first time visiting Newfoundland. Unsurprisingly, I don't remember much of that evening...