Here is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
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H. HAY DRUGSTORE, AND MONUMENT SQUARE Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. —From The Devil’s Dictionary (1911) by Ambrose Bierce ANY HISTORICAL EVENT involving mass quantities of alcohol and rowdy mobs gets my immediate attention, and within minutes of reading about the Rum Riot of 1855 in Portland, Maine’s Monument Square, I added the site to my itinerary. At the epicenter of the incident was Neal Dow, whose obsession with curing America of its licentious... ways catalyzed two constitutional amendments and ushered in a new era of search-and-seizure procedures that fundamentally altered our judicial system. Plus, Dow was the embodiment of this country’s early puritanical spirit, and no discussion of U.S. history would be complete without a mention of its Puritan-steeped legal foundations. A quick summary: On November 11, 1620, two days before stepping onto the New World, the first Pilgrims (or “Separatists”) composed the Mayflower Compact, swearing “all due submission and obedience”
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