Prohibition: Connecticut Goes Dry | CT Public | Full Documentary

In 1920, the 18th Amendment was enacted banning the sale of alcohol across the country. However, in our "land of steady habits," alcohol consumption was a habit that proved hard to break.
In the CPTV original documentary, Prohibition: Connecticut Goes Dry, filmmakers Jennifer Boyd and Sara Conner explore Connecticut's unique role in the prohibition movement, from the early temperance advocates of Litchfield to the lawless rum runners of Long Island Sound. The program explores the creation, rise, and fall of prohibition in the state.
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[@tundrawomansays694]

What a great documentary-thanks so much for posting. Much appreciated!

[@lindakay9552]

Thank you so much for this video! My 9th great grandfather was one of the original proprietors of Norwich. He got his land from Uncas. His first recorded event was marriage to my 9th great grandmother, in Saybrook in 1628. I have lived in Washington my entire life. This is the best amount I've ever heard of what early life way like in Connecticut. This is illuminating!

[@ProfessorMcGuigan]

I really enjoyed the fruits of your labor - great job! I live in Trumbull CT and this was fascinating.Amazing how many aspects of modern life are prompted by prohibition!

[@Cam-wi5xx]

One of the best documentaries on the internet to date. Thanks!

[@zaaz1471]

This was a fantastic documentary. Very interesting!!

[@CrustyUgg]

I grew up in east haven.. so cool to see old photos of Branford / EH

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still -motion photography pictures 📷. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to guest speakers sharing personal information pertaining to the daily activities of local residents. Prohibition morons gave the organized crime syndicates control of the big cities & beyond.

[@ThePedrolsj]

It's outstanding how people can repeat the exact same mistakes? this is a mandatory documentary for weed prohibition advocates

[@Cam-wi5xx]

agreed. only difference is weed saves and alcohol doesn't...

[@ShushaSofia]

@@Cam-wi5xx give it ten years before they start putting out articles on how weed is bad. Everything is a business and one has to take what they feed our brains with a grain of salt.

[@captainnebulous2918]

@@ShushaSofia They've already attempted to prove pretty much everything in the book wrong with weed and 99.9% of it was debunked. Even on the lung damage front, studies indicate that the lung tissue of an over-smoker fully redevelops rapidly if they cut down and moderate. As opposed to cigarette smokers who's lungs never fully recover once they've smoked for more than 5 years. There has been a ton of research for decades already in the UK and even in the US and very little of it has shown permanent or fatal damage unless you start as a teenager or child. Let's not forget how the FDA keeps trying to convince everyone that weed is just as bad as heroin. It's fucking ridiculous. Personally I think it's time to end ALL prohibition on ANY recreational substance. Just think about how much rehab money they're wasting pretending to care about enforcing the drug laws.

[@tundrawomansays694]

@@ShushaSofiaYou’re probably right. However, in the meantime this old widow is gonna enjoy the heck out of my eatables! And flip the bird at the pharmaceutical industry. They can all stuff (for example) their ozempic etc. lies about weight loss-HAHAHAAAAA-down their own avaricious throats.

[@MexTexican]

v good job. intelligent, informative, interesting. thanx 4 posting.

[@richardmiranda640]

That’s General Tom Thumb, Thank you very much.

[@StevenTorrey]

Very informative!

[@mikkelnpetersen]

You can take away many things from a man, his job, his pride, his dignity, but you DO NOT take away his beer.

[@hothmandon]

Amen brother! But do you know what else you don't take from a man? His weed😃

[@cjmg321]

cold case files

[@buskerharmony]

beer does that for him and his daughter

[@jenniferrojas7024]

mikkelnpetersen Pills and weed and others too.

[@michaelweizer7794]

@@jenniferrojas7024 and to some don't forget Guns either!

[@txvoltaire]

32:59 From "The Beverly Hillbillies": "What's the meanest, low-down thing a body can do?" "Tell the revenuers you got a still!"

[@Bilbanzabar]

"A1 Steak Sauce!" Most dramatic and intense quote of the entire documentary, has nothing to do with alcohol.

[@JewYai]

thank you for this documentary. it rivals Ken Burns which is a high bar.

[@skipsassy1]

smoking was the largest growth by these woman folks - torches of freedom.

[@daylightbright7675]

...Anyone feel like a drink? 😅😅

[@TopazKnight87]

Man, I wish...😭

[@lesmcc8103]

Nope! 😇

[@captainnebulous2918]

Most of my friends drink that gross piss water known as American beer these days. Here I am just wanting to down straight shots of whiskey lol. But no.... everyone's always drinking PBR, Budweiser, Busch (the 2nd grossest beer) or Natty Ice (the 1st grossest beer).

[@melloangelwolf8611]

My home in CT was built in 1920

[@toddsterben6647]

Funny that it ends with "Amen"

[@longlongtran]

still cant buy liqour in grocery stores

[@harrickvharrick3957]

Love all the old-time footage from back in the day but boy have they stretched out the story too long with that voice. I am at minute seven and I can't stand it any longer. But hey, I am watching it in the morning!

[@raybrensike42]

Signing a pledge to drink no more doesn't sound like temperance to me. Why was alcoholism so rampant? I find that strange. Was liquor so cheap or something? So many times a movement will have a name that sounds good, and they use that name to promote what they do. However, what they name is, or what their name is, is not much about what they really do. It's often used as stalking horse, something that might look harmless, that they can hide behind so they can sneak up on their game.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

It was very cheap. It was usually drank at every meal. You could pick up a bottle of alcohol for extremely cheap. You could easily brew beer at home. Stills were just about everywhere. As for your last paragraph.....I'm not sure what you are getting at. "Temperance" comes from Latin Tempero, which means to restrain. In this case, restrain from drinking.

[@snelled]

@@WalkerRileyMC Stills were but safe drinking water was not, you do the math

[@captainnebulous2918]

It was no more rampant then than it is today. Just a bunch of preachy losers wanted to make something out of nothing. Obviously prohibition of any kind is always a bad idea, with zero chance of success.

[@peterbelanger4094]

Before 20th century water treatment technology, clean drinking water was difficult to come by. Beer & wine became part of many cultures as a substitute.

[@unvaccinatedmgtowfitness]

So much beautiful Americana here.

[@Sandalphon444]

History rhymes

[@captainnebulous2918]

The failure of prohibition is the single greatest achievement of American Society - - - except they should have fought marijuana prohibition as well. ALL prohibition is garbage.

[@sexysatan3934]

Boardwalk Empire

[@SwAmPy1278]

Let's Go Brandon!

[@fazemills663]

37:18

[@lesmcc8103]

It's kind of sad that people couldn't seem to enjoy life without drinking.

[@captainnebulous2918]

It's not that they couldn't enjoy life without drinking, it's that they preferred to enjoy it while drinking. HUGE difference. Don't let the straightedge snobs tell ya any different lol

[@shaunpenne1840]

@@captainnebulous2918 As the late, great W.C Fields once said "Don't drink water, fish fuck in it!"

[@CrustyUgg]

It's about having your freedoms taken away by the government. We see it now... ppl who aren't (covid) vaccinated, such as myself, aren't anti-vax... we are anti the government deciding what's best for me. If the vaccination makes it so MY time with covid would be easier IF I caught it (and I still haven't) then it's MY decision whether or not I want an easier time with covid ... but we are seeing now that even the vax doesn't mean you are guaranteed an easier time with covid. It all comes down to freedom of choice. Alcohol. Vaccinations. Guns. Etc.

[@jflsdknf]

It's the same today.

[@unvaccinatedmgtowfitness]

​@@CrustyUggBased! Totally agree good Sirr.

[@buskerharmony]

Legalising AL CAPONE Has a proven a great success in usa ask your daughter.

[@evinghamhoffnikel5644]

wish they'd do it with marijuana in n.y. pretty fuckin soon. I ain't getting any younger.

[@gc5006]

Westport may be in Connecticut but Connecticut people don't live there. It is a place for overly rich New Yorkers. Westport is NOT Connecticut. Connecticut people have class.

[@imperialgames6146]

I always thought Carrie Nation was just one of those older single bitter kind of people. She just kind of was pissed off she was single so she had to take her anger out on something. I mean I have very liberal views but its not like like I'm gonna break the windows in churches or even protest say a gun rally or NRA meeting.

[@droldsw31]

Maybe things would have been different if Carrie had a Sybian and Motor Bunny.

[@sandraleehood]

Her husband died from alcoholism. That is why she was so angry about drinking.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

@@sandraleehood She was an exploitive bitch. She claimed to speak directly with God. She trademarked her name after she became popular. SHE AND HER HUSBAND SEPERATED A FULL TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH. He died in 1869. She remarried in 1874. She didn't even start preaching against alcohol until 1899, a full THIRTY years after the death of her first husband. No, she wasn't pissed off about her husband dying from drinking. She just used it as an excuse.

[@captainnebulous2918]

There has never been a revolution, small or large, in the United States that did not at least start with riots and non-conformity. With the two criminal organizations we call democrats and republicans, now more than ever the only way to get real change is to exterminate the two parties.... preferably physically but I'd settle for em all having to serve their lives out in Guantánamo Bay. Problem is most things that can get the attention of the masses in a timely fashion are illegal. Then people falsely call them "criminals" for breaking the overly restrictive protest laws. The laws regarding protests are written in such a way that it discourages any meaningful protest. You basically have to break those laws to get anywhere with a protest.

[@lagoldschmied]

penalizar NO es la respuesta a la naturaleza humana, legalicen las drogas ¡ya!

[@jenniferrojas7024]

Alex Goldschmied Yes, friend.

[@Hisloyalservantslistenlove613c]

Drogas son substitutos para gozo natural que viene de una vida saludable.

[@snelled]

this dislike is because of youtube's ad policy

[@captainnebulous2918]

So you punish the content creator by disliking his video? Makes no sense at all.

[@snelled]

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[@suekennedy1595]

Love the guy complaining that the the immigrants are too loud, coming from an American.

[@ordinaryextraordinarybrotha]

It seems like people back then weren't too intelligent the temperance movement was right alcohol is nothing but a destructive force more people have died from drunk driving and what you can imagine if they would have been smart back then they should have been embraced prohibition in this country would be a lot better than what it is now personally I don't even want to be involved with people that drink too much most of them seem to turn out to be losers

[@jacobjones8396]

We should ban all unhealthy food. Most people who are obese are loosers.

[@CosmosFiddler]

Great documentary, but the narrator's speech impediment is really distracting.

[@faberrylove]

+CosmosFiddler What are you talking about?

[@CosmosFiddler]

+Maeby Fünke The way he says his 'L' is in the back of the throat instead of bringing the tongue forward, touching the edge of front teeth. It would be really annoying and noticeable if he said "La, La, La", for example. It may seem picky of me, but I'm also bothered by mispronunciations by people who should be intelligent, like presidents who can't say 'nuclear' properly but instead they say 'noo-cyoo-ler'.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

@@CosmosFiddler I think you're being overtly annoyed by something hardly anyone can even hear. Maybe calm down just a bit.

[@captainnebulous2918]

Just be glad he doesn't speak like a southerner lol..... they can't pronounce their i's correctly at all.

[@jeffmiller3112]

Boring