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NNY360, January 11, 2020—Author documents “Bullets, Booze, Bootleggers” on 100th anniversary of Prohibition: While growing up in Champlain, Clinton County, Lawrence P. Gooley was given some words of advice by his mother.

“There were some old-timers in town, of which my mom would say, ‘You shouldn’t be hanging around with those old bootleggers,'” he said. “And it turned out they were actually bootleggers. They had some great stories to tell.”

The tales were partially what inspired him to research and write, “Bullets, Booze, Bootleggers, and Beer: The Story of Prohibition in Northern New York, Volume 1 — 1920-1926.”

Press-Republican, December 18, 2019—Fast cars, fast money & booze: Rumors of bootlegging North Country ancestors that got caught can probably be verified in “Bullets, Booze, Bootleggers, and Beer: The Story of Prohibition in Northern New York, Volume 1:1920-1926.”

Written by award-winning author/Bloated Toe publisher Lawrence Gooley, it was seven years in the making.