First (Last) Friday March 26, 2010

Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family. Author Dick Kreck back by popular demand will host one of the last programs held in the Colorado History Museum. The high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate got its start in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished into the late twentieth century. Connected to such notorious figures as Al Capone and Carlos Marcello, charismatic Clyde Smaldone was the family's leader from the Prohibition era to the rise of gambling to the family's waning days. Through candid interviews and firsthand accounts, Kreck reveals what it meant to be a Smaldone and explores the mix of love and dysfunction that is part of every American family