Jajazzzz History Walking Tour with Garrett Peck

The tour will start promptly at 3:30 pm on Saturday, September 1st at the Howard Theater

The combination of jazz and bootleg booze was an irresistible force in Prohibition-era Washington, and nowhere in town was the music hotter or the drinks more plentiful than in Shaw. The clubs and theaters on U Street, N.W., dubbed the city’s “Black Broadway,” drew audiences to hear headliners like Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, and D.C. born Duke Ellington. This two hour walking tour begins at the historic Howard Theatre and ends with happy hour at Right Proper Brewing, the site of Frank Holliday’s Pool Hall, where a teenaged Duke Ellington learned to appreciate music.

Registration:
$20/person for Harvard Club members and their guests
$30/person for Non-members

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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.

When:

3:30PM - 5:30PM Sat 1 Sep 2018, Eastern timezone

Where:

The Howard Theater
620 T St NW
Washington, DC 20001 USA

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