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Posted on 1/14/2018 10:39:44 PM
By Summer Nelson
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Micaiah's ongoing theme of historical coastal scenes has garnered the attention of the local community and resulted in the commission of a series of prohibition-era paintings by the owner of a newly opened gastro-pub in Leucadia.
This series of paintings is based on stories of Moonlight Beach, which was popular during Prohibition (1920-1933) with the rum-runners and bootleggers who smuggled alcohol up the coast. Large boats anchored outside the three-mile limit of U.S. jurisdiction sold alcohol to smugglers in small, fast boats which could easily outrun the coast guard, as depicted in the painting entitled “Leaving the Rum Line.” On one occasion in 1928 a cargo boat miscalculated it’s depth and ran aground at Moonlight Beach in the middle of the night. The community came out to collect the scattered barrels and bottles of liquor, depicted in the painting entitled “1928 Moonlight Beach”. The drunken jubilation that followed is depicted in another painting entitled “Scofflaws.”
This historical themed collection will be installed at Bread & Barley on the Highway 101 in Leucadia this coming Thursday the 18th of January. Join us for a happy hour reception from 4:30-6:30 pm and take a whimsical look at local bootleggers and booze smugglers during the California prohibition.
1928 Moonlight Beach 24" x 36" Oil On Linen
Leaving The Rum Line 24" x 36" Oil On Linen
Scofflaws 24" x 36" Oil On Linen
