Hannah Griggs and Mapping Prohibition Raids

Drink & Learn Podcast

English - April 11, 2020 15:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
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Hannah Griggs joins Elizabeth to talk about her website, Intemperance.org where she mapped 1,000 Prohibition raids that occurred in New Orleans throughout The Great Mistake. She discusses her findings and takes listeners on a virtual tour of drinking life in New Orleans back then, one data point at a time.

Other references include:
Tanya Marie Sanchez' work on women bootleggers in New Orleans.
Lisa Lindquist Dorr's book A Thousand Thirsty Beaches
Langston Hughes' autobiography, The Big Sea.