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Cayuga Museum to Host Bag Lunch Talk Exploring Interconnection Between Women’s Suffrage and Prohibition

Oct 05th, 2022

Join the Cayuga Museum and guest speaker Larry Bell in the Museum’s Carriage House Theater for a fascinating exploration of an often overlooked overlap in history. Bring a brown bag lunch, and check out this lunchtime lecture, Temperance, Prohibition, and the Problem of Intoxication.

Excessive consumption of alcohol was a huge problem in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Progressive reformers such as Susan B. Anthony and Emily Howland, in addition to fighting for women’s suffrage, also advocated for temperance, since women were often the victims of alcohol-fueled violence.

 

As a result of their efforts, the amendment for prohibition was passed in 1919, one year before women gained the right to vote.

 

On the occasion of her one hundredth birthday in 1927, Emily Howland said that everything she had fought for had been won. Of course, we now know that prohibition did not solve the problem of alcoholism, just as constitutional amendments did not guarantee persons of color the right to vote.

 

Admission for the talk will be $5 for the general public, and free for members of the Cayuga Museum. The brown bag talk will take place from noon-1 PM on Friday, October 28. The Carriage House Theater is located at 203 Genesee St. in Auburn, NY, behind the main Cayuga Museum. Parking is available adjacent to the theater or in front of the Cayuga Museum on Genesee St.

 

About the Speaker: Larry B. Bell serves as historian for the Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood, where he recently curated the exhibit, I Strove to Realize Myself and to Serve: The Emily Howland Daguerreotypes, and published an accompanying catalog.

A native of Broome County, Larry was a theater major at Baldwin-Wallace College, studied biblical historical criticism at Gordon Conwell Seminary, and subsequently pastored churches in Cayuga County for 23 years. While pastoring, he studied biblical archaeology and history at Cornell, and participated in a dig at tel Zeitah in Israel. After retirement, he indulged his passion for family history by tracking down cousins in Poland, Ukraine, and Romania, and publishing historical articles in FamilySearch, Rodziny, and the Bukovina Journal.

This program is made possible by the Cayuga Museum’s Proof Positive Exhibitor Sponsors. Learn more about sponsorships at cayugamuseum.org/sponsorships/

 

Contact Information

Geoffrey Starks

Director of Development and Outreach

p. (315) 253-8051

e. geoffrey@cayugamuseum.org

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