Even in law-abiding southwestern Michigan, the Eighteenth Amendment
turned ordinary citizens into scofflaws and sparked unprecedented
unrest. Betta Holloway reached her breaking point when her husband, a
Portland cop, was shot pursuing a rumrunner. She relieved his pain with
a neighbor's homebrew. As farmers across the region fermented their
fruit to make a living, gangsters like Al Capone amassed extraordinary
wealth. Baby Face Nelson came to Grand Haven and proved that he had no
aptitude for robbing banks. Even before the Volstead Act passed, Battle
Creek bad guy Adam Pump Arnold routinely broke all local prohibition
laws--and every other law as well. Meanwhile, Carrie Nation hectored
Michigan with her hatchetations. Authors Norma Lewis and Christine
Nyholm reveal how the Noble Experiment fueled a rowdy, roaring,
decade-long party.