Wood Alcohol in Carmel?

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During Prohibition, all too many people drank whatever they could find, make, or buy on the black market. My husband and I had a vacation cottage in Carmel. One weekend a group of friends came to have a party with us. There were maybe a dozen people. While everyone else went out for liquor, I stayed home. They arrived later, not happy and laughing as I had expected, but sick. Very sick. Really sick. I had some lying on beds, some sitting with their heads out windows, and some on the floor with basins and buckets. Oh, such a horrible night! They had been drinking...not good bootleg but wood alcohol.

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