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Watering Hole: The Colorful History of Booze, Sex and Death at a New Jersey Tavern traces the wild and wacky history of the Mine Hill Tavern from its stagecoach stop beginnings through speakeasy days of prohibition and its 1960s incarnation as Morris County’s first gay and lesbian bar. For 135 years, the clear glass windows of the Mine Hill Tavern have been silent witness to shootings, hit-and-runs, an influenza epidemic, AIDS casualties, innumerable sex acts and ghostly hauntings. And now you can visit the Mine Hill Tavern, through the pages of Watering Hole, without even leaving your own home. Lavishly illustrated with over 50 photographs, Watering Hole is told in a lively, sparkling style by award-winning journalist Matt Connor, who based the book on hundreds of hours of research and dozens of interviews with the people who experienced the crazy goings-on in the tavern first-hand. So pull up a barstool at one of New Jersey’s most notorious nightspots. The drinks are on the house! |
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Two
ghosts, three murders, two mysterious drownings and an arson attempt
– and that’s BEFORE the Siberian tiger, randy mailman and
drunken lesbians show up!