Prohibition in The Inland Northwest. The happy struggle. From a
sod house to flapper fun, dance halls, drinking houses and
serenades on Loon Lake. A memoir for the love of a lake
cabin.
He was a handsome man in Palouse,
Washington, with a shock of hair hanging carefree over his forehead
and an enticing twinkle in his eye above a mischievous grin.
He worked their
acreage in wheat, but when times got harder than usual, he started
making moonshine. As soon as Idaho and Oregon made alcohol illegal,
it had become especially popular. Folks from those states had been
coming across the state line like church goers on a Sunday, and he
had an old family recipe that couldn’t be beat. Besides, he had all
that wheat. When Idaho deemed alcohol to be the demon's elixir, he
was already in business and didn't see how it would pay to
quit.