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Michael's Inishmurray had no police, no magistrate, no roads, no shopsand no taxes. Although a lone Protestant resident, a schoolteacher who spent a short time on the island in the early 1800s, was held responsible for "the land losing its fertility and the fish forsaking the shore," the islanders went on potting lobsters, growing vegetables and grazing cattle. They were safe in the knowledge that their economy rested on another custom, the origin of which was also lost in the mists of antiquity: the manufacture of poteen illicit whisky...
...significant historical strand. In 1693, probably before the advent of the valedictory, the authorities decided to ban the intoxicating plum cake which graduating seniors had been in the habit of giving their friends. During the 18th century, records of Class Day alcoholism are sparse, but early in the 1800s, the tradition of spiked punch took firm root. Abuses of this custom, however, led to a riot in 1838, and in 1852, the punch was declared illegal. During a controversy over Class Day 35 years later, a correspondent to the CRIMSON recalled "the good old days, when ... a cask containing...
Rachel and the Stranger. Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young and William Holden do some wooing and wrangling on the Ohio frontier of the early 1800s (TIME, Sept...
Rachel and the Stranger. Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young and William Holden on the Ohio frontier of the early 1800s (TIME, Sept...
Rachel and the Stranger. Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young and William Holden do some wooing and wrangling on the Ohio frontier of the early 1800s(TIME, Sept...