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This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show,

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And we especially love bringing you stories about family businesses.

And today we bring you one with a long history that begins with a fruit cart in 1859.

Here is Alex Castle, the master distiller at Old Dominic Distillery,

to tell us the history of this Memphis family business.

Music to tell us the history of this Memphis family business.

So one of the best things to me about working for Old Dominic and D. Canali company is the history of it.

That history dates back to 1866 and it is very tangible history. That whole

family held on to so many documents and ledger books and letters. I don't know what they were thinking when they held on to it all, but I know we're very happy that

it's there now.

The family history isn't just some story that's been passed down by word of mouth.

It is a history that is very, very real and that we can show to everyone just how authentic that story is.

And to be able to be a part of such an authentic story and hopefully be a part of its history

eventually, it's just, it's very rewarding.

So our founder, Dominico Canali, was an Italian immigrant.

And he came over to the States in 1859, landed in New Orleans and decided to take a riverboat

up to Memphis.

He already had family here, his uncle, had a business already.

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