Celebrate the day by having a drink! Or, better yet, why not have a Prohibition party? Request that your guests wear period attire, and that they enter and leave your house through the back door. Encourage them to bring some of the imported spirits that were used in speakeasies during the era, such as Caribbean rum, Canadian whiskey, and English gin; make sure they bring them in brown bags or flasks, so they don't get caught! You could be the bartender and serve up some of the most popular drinks of the Prohibition era. Really get your party going with some music from the time period. Just in case the booze your guests brought runs out, make some moonshine or bathtub gin in advance, and have it hiding in your bathtub.
If you don't feel like turning your house into a speakeasy, sip on a drink and spend some time reading the Eighteenth and Twenty-first amendments, watching Ken Burns' Prohibition, or reading a book about the time. Planning a trip to The Museum of the American Cocktail may be a fun idea as well!
The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol. On January 16, 1919, it was ratified by the requisite number of states, but did not go into effect for another year. Prohibition Remembrance Day commemorates the ratification and implementation of Prohibition, and the almost fourteen years that American citizens lived under it.
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