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How the Founding Fathers Got Drunk Part I – The Holidays

by Kate Dolan | Dec 30, 2014 | Articles, Colonial America, Holidays, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History

The founding fathers look pretty proper and straitlaced when they’re stamped on the front of legal currency, but these guys knew how to party. Or at least, they knew how to drink. And many of them knew how to mix drinks, brew beer, distill spirits, and how to...

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