Pine Plains distillery opens at site of Prohibition-era bootlegging operation
(World News USA)

PINE PLAINS, N.Y. — Prohibition was a time of speakeasies, flappers, and ruthless mobsters looking to strike it rich in the illicit alcohol trade. And while much of the history of that time evolves around places like New York City and Chicago, this rural agricultural community played a prominent role in the notorious mobster and bootlegger Dutch Schultz.- Advertisement - It was here, on the 400-acre Harvest Homestead Farm at 98 Ryan Road, ironically owned by a former New York City detective, that Schultz established a massive bootlegging operation from which he supplied illegal alcohol to downstate speakeasies. Now, nearly 88 years after Schultz`s operation was shut down when FBI agents...