World War I DC Walking Tour with Garrett Peck
Celebrate Memorial Day with this fascinating walking tour
The Great War in Washington. World War I was the most important war of the 20th century. Few American cities were affected by the war as much as the nation's capital. This 2.5-mile, 2.5-hour walking tour explores the memorials and monuments, protest sites, temporary buildings and theaters, and above all the people who helped the U.S. win the Great War. The tour begins and ends at Lafayette Square.
Date: Saturday, May 23, 2020
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Walking tour starting at Lafayette Square
Fee: $25/person for Harvard Club members and their guests
$35/person for Non-members
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,” was published in 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.