Rum Runner

Episode 1: The Red Bank

The Setaro family leaves Sassano, Italy in 1888, their home for the last 400 years in search of a better life in America. With maps and trade routes drawn out by their father Don Vito Setaro, his sons split the family apart to create shipping routes to establish their wine business in the new world. The Setaro family discovers the beautiful shores of the Red Bank in New Jersey to call home.

Episode 2: Trouble in Paradise

As the Jersey Shore becomes the crown jewel along the East Coast, attracting powerful and wealthy aristocrats, dignitaries, and even American presidents, the temperance movement begins to rise locally. Local tourist attractions Highland Beach, Monmouth Park Racetrack, and even a small tavern, the Union Hotel in Red Bank become the targets for the rising movement against drinking and gambling. 

Episode 3: The Melting Pot Boils

The Setaro family takes a deal and establishes the Italian colony in Red Bank, NJ. The temperance movement becomes emboldened and a war begins against Sitting Bull and the Ghost Dance Movement, several Italians are murdered in a public lynching in New Orleans, and gambler A.J. Hunt is dragged from his prison cell and murdered in the streets of Walla Walla, Washington. 

Episode 4: Reckoning

When a mysterious murder happens down at the Italian Colony, the Setaro family finds themselves imprisoned! Just months after the lynchings in New Orleans and fearing for their lives, the Setaro's find an ally in an unlikely source and receive help from the Italian American Society of New York City who sends down the Patron Saint of the Bowery James Oliver to help them. 

Episode 5: Deal with it

Jimmy Oliver puts together the largest land deal in the history of the Jersey Shore that sets up the trade routes for the largest bootlegging ring in the world. As part of the deal and as retribution for the lynchings in New Orleans the Italians are given Columbus Day and the Pledge of Allegiance is written. The temperance movement continues their assault against Monmouth Park Racetrack, the Setaro's find themselves quarantined in the colony, and Big John's father is murdered.