The Culver-Union Township Public Library will host Hoosiers & Their Hooch: Perspectives on Prohibition, one of the Indiana Historical Society’s (IHS’s) traveling exhibits, during the month of September. The exhibit, featuring the rise and fall of prohibition in Indiana and throughout the country, will be on display in the lower level lobby, located at 107 North Main Street in Culver.
The exhibit spans the dawn of the temperance movement of the 1900s, the roaring 1920s and the unprecedented repeal of a constitutional amendment during the Great Depression. The sights, sounds and experiences of the time period are brought to life by images and graphics from IHS’s collections.
In addition, the era’s conflicting cultures are demonstrated through colorful historic figures such as Edward S. Shumaker of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, as well as the bootleggers, moonshiners and bathtub gin distillers who found their way around the law in Indiana.
The end of the exhibit gives visitors an update on what has happened between 1933 and the present day, demonstrating the effects prohibition has had on Indiana’s regulatory landscape and how it is represented in modern culture. Hoosiers & Their Hooch: Perspectives on Prohibition is made possible by Kroger.
