Cavallini, William "Bill", 1904-2005
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1904 - 2005
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Rum Running/ Bootlegging Collection
Collection
Identifier: MF009
Scope and Contents
William Cavallini, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, May 16, 1997, in Harwich, Massachusetts. Cavallini discusses his experiences rum-running on the coast of Maine, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia during Prohibition; operating the radio on rum-running boats beginning 1930; packaging of liquor; unloading at night; locations where liquor was unloaded; recollections of Meteghan, Nova Scotia; boat specifications; pay; killing of rumrunners; pastimes when not running rum; names of...
Dates:
May 16, 1997
William Cavallini, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall
Series
Identifier: na2487
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
William Cavallini, interviewed by Pauleena MacDougall, May 16, 1997, in Harwich, Massachusetts. Cavallini discusses his experiences rum-running on the coast of Maine, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia during Prohibition; operating the radio on rum-running boats beginning 1930; packaging of liquor; unloading at night; locations where liquor was unloaded; recollections of Meteghan, Nova Scotia; boat specifications; pay; killing of rumrunners; pastimes when not running rum; names of...
Dates:
May 16, 1997
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- Canada -- History 1
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- New England -- History 1
- Oral histories 1
- Prohibition -- Maine 1
