When The Town Goes Dry

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Small Town Press

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491_9780981646688

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This book has been an idea of mine for over ten years. In 2010, I went to France to work as an English-language assistant in a high school in Dijon from October 2010 until April 2011. The school I was assigned to had another English-language assistant from England. In the first few weeks, we went from one class to another to introduce ourselves and talk about our home towns. As my fellow assistant was from England, the description of his home town was not very surprising. When one of the teachers asked me why my hometown was called Dry Ridge, I didnt have an answer for her. I have since learned that Dry Ridge is called Dry Ridge because there were no natural bodies of water at its founding. Since I didnt know that at the time, I told her that I lived in a ``dry county, which means that its illegal to sell alcohol. Her eyes got really big and she exclaimed, ``Really?! I did not know that! After that, I explained to her and the class the alcohol laws in Grant County.``There are no bars. No clubs. No liquor stores. No sale of alcohol in stores or in gas stations. The only legal way you can purchase alcohol is to buy it in a restaurant. However, the restaurant must have a 100-seating capacity and 70\% of the revenue must come from food receipts.This subject became an icebreaker for me during my travels in France and surrounding European countries. There were language assistants from various countries around the world and from various states in America, and they all found this topic fascinating. I happened upon a group of Irishmen in Brussels who were having a bachelor party. I had a beer with them and told them about the dry laws in my county. They found it mind-boggling that a country that prides itself on civil liberties and freedom of choice would still have such restrictions.The primary audiences for this book are those who never knew that prohibition still existed in some capacity in America and those who live or have lived in such areas. As mentioned befo

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