Face time: Minnesota History Center's Prohibition ball

For the Minnesota Star Tribune
November 17, 2013 at 2:45AM
Steve and Cari Winkler pose for a photo lineup with cutouts of Al Capone, at left, and Lucky Luciano during the Bootlegger's Ball American Spirits Preview Party at Minnesota History Center in St. Paul on Friday, November 8. ] Chris Kelleher, Special to the Star Tribune, 11/8/2013, St. Paul, MN.
Al Capone and Lucky Luciano made an appearance with Steve and Cari Winkler. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

How better to celebrate the opening of the Minnesota History Center's exhibit on Prohibition than with a Bootleggers Ball? In addition to dressing the part of flappers and gangsters, guests learned the Charleston and shimmy, had their mugshots taken and sipped moonshine cocktails for the one-night speakeasy. The exhibit, "American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition," runs through mid-March.


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