Temperance History Walking Tour with Garrett Peck
The meeting place is the Temperance Fountain and the tour will begin promptly at 1:00PM.
Temperance Tour. This is the first tour that Garrett Peck developed in 2006 and always a crowd pleaser. It’s a three-hour walking tour that explores unusual Prohibition-related sights in the nation’s capital that even most Washingtonians haven’t seen, like the Cogswell Temperance Fountain, Calvary Baptist Church and the rare Prohibition-era wine cellar in the Woodrow Wilson House. The tour is so unusual that Peck turned it into a book, Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren’t. The registration fee includes admission to the Woodrow Wilson House.
Registration:
$20/person for Harvard Club members and their guests
$30/person for Non-members
About Garrett Peck:
Garrett Peck is an author, historian and tour guide in the nation's capital. He leads tours through The Smithsonian Associates, and his Temperance Tour of Prohibition-related sites has been featured on C-SPAN Book TV and the History Channel program "Ten Things You Didn't Know About" with punk rock legend Henry Rollins. He is featured in an upcoming two-hour documentary about Prohibition by the Smithsonian Channel. His seventh book, The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath , will be published in fall 2018.
Peck was involved with the DC Craft Bartenders Guild in lobbying the DC City Council to have the Rickey declared Washington's native cocktail in 2011. He researched and pinpointed the Washington Brewery site at Navy Yard, and is particularly proud that Green Hat Gin is named after a character Peck wrote about in Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: congressional bootlegger George Cassiday. He has lectured at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the Smithsonian Institution, and often speaks at historical societies, literary clubs and trade associations.
Peck is on the board of the Woodrow Wilson House and is a member of the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of D.C. A native Californian and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and George Washington University, he lives in Arlington, Virginia
Where:
Temperance Fountain
Pennsylvania Avenue & Seventh Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20001 USA
[ Get Directions ]