This evening program accompanies the exhibit "Teetotalers and Moonshiners: Prohibition in Virginia, Distilled".
The federal government expected Washington, D.C., to be the "model dry city" for the rest of the country during Prohibition, but it turned out to be sopping wet. Thousands of bootleggers supplied illegal booze to the city's 3,000 speakeasies, while even Congress employed its own bootleggers. Much of that hooch came from Virginia, where moonshiners had been actively breaking the law since the Old Dominion went dry in 1916. This evening program accompanies the exhibit "Teetotalers and Moonshiners: Prohibition in Virginia, Distilled". Garrett Peck, author of Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren't, will lead a rollicking discussion brimming with stories of bootleggers, speakeasies, and vice.
EVENT TYPE: | Special Event | Author Talks |
TAGS: | local history | book |
Virginia's Constitution is a traveling exhibition from the Library of Virginia to mark the 50th anniversary of the state's current constitution.