Title

Of Drunkards and Scofflaws: Vermillion's Prohibition Story

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Authors

David I. Burrow, University of South DakotaFollow
Cash Anderson, University of South Dakota
Irene Aplan, University of South Dakota
Katryna Booth-Malnack, University of South Dakota
Darienne Driesen, University of South Dakota
Taylor Faw, University of South Dakota
Kane Guisinger, University of South Dakota
Hannah Hofmaier, University of South Dakota
Samantha Jungers, University of South Dakota
Pierce Libbey, University of South Dakota
Jessica Muehlbeier, University of South Dakota
Kevin Nam, University of South Dakota
Isaac Otterman, University of South Dakota
Jacob Taylor, University of South Dakota
Jess Tisher, University of South Dakota
Matt Yetter, University of South Dakota

Description

Of Drunkards and Scofflaws explores some of the experiences of the town of Vermillion, South Dakota, and some surrounding communities, during Prohibition. Prohibition in South Dakota began earlier and lasted longer than the period of national Prohibition—national Prohibition lasted from 1920 to 1933—in most of the rest of the United States. The podcast focuses on the bootlegger Milton Schooley, Vermillion and Prohibition, the Beresford “Super Still,” “the Island” or Asymptote, attitudes toward Prohibition seen at the University of South Dakota, and the trial of Ozzy Kirby.

Publication Date

Spring 2018

Keywords

Vermillion; Prohibition; USD; student research; Milton Schooley, Super Still, Asymptote, Ozzy Kirby, Wet Hen, Volante

Narrator

David Burrow, Isaac Otterman, and Samantha Jungers

Interviewer

Pierce Libbey and David Burrow

Interviewee

Matt Lavin (Davis Pharmacy in Vermillion)

Length of Podcast

31:21

References

Chuck Cecil, Astride the White Mule; The Sioux Falls Argus Leader; The Dakota Republican; The Volante; The Wet Hen; The Coyote yearbook, The Archives & Special Collections at the University of South Dakota; the Oral History Center at the University of South Dakota; the Clay County Historical Society; the Vermillion Public Library; the United Church of Christ in Vermillion; the Clay County Clerk of Courts.

Disciplines

Digital Humanities | History | Oral History

Recommended Citation

Burrow, David I.; Anderson, Cash; Aplan, Irene; Booth-Malnack, Katryna; Driesen, Darienne; Faw, Taylor; Guisinger, Kane; Hofmaier, Hannah; Jungers, Samantha; Libbey, Pierce; Muehlbeier, Jessica; Nam, Kevin; Otterman, Isaac; Taylor, Jacob; Tisher, Jess; and Yetter, Matt, "Of Drunkards and Scofflaws: Vermillion's Prohibition Story" (2018). Honors Program Projects. 1.
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors_projects/1