• Boxer / Opera Singer / Queen of the Rum Runners

  • Jan 23 2025
  • Length: 21 mins
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Boxer / Opera Singer / Queen of the Rum Runners

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  • She was a boxer, an opera singer, and a rum runner. Nellie Green made it through 13 years of Prohibition with just one team member getting arrested, while keeping her patrons well supplied with alcohol. She also distributed some of her liquor to other bootleggers further inland, making hefty profits. How did this singing sensation – with a knock-out punch – end up being one of the biggest rum runners in the northeast?
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