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Anthony Setaro

The bootlegging history beneath Highlands

Anthony Setaro mid-sentence at a microphone on a porch, one hand raised, green trees and a strip of bay behind him.

1 hr 18 min Recorded 22 July 2026 Highlands, New Jersey

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Anthony Setaro is a Highlands researcher of the shore's Prohibition years and the author of the still-unfinished Rum on the 'Sink. He works from newspapers, deeds, maps, and family memory, then goes and finds what is still in the ground — a rum-runner's garage under the grass, a signal tower aimed at the water, bottles behind the houses where they were pitched a century ago. His subject is history hiding in plain sight, and the clock on the people who can still confirm it.

Recorded
2026-07-22
Interviewer
Eric Kane
Where
Highlands, New Jersey
In partnership with
Hollywood East Films
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