Campus & Community Alcohol in N.C. is exhibit topic
| Alcohol in N.C. is exhibit topic |
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| Monday, June 16, 2008 | |
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Photographs of law enforcement officers raiding and dynamiting illegal distilleries are among items in the new exhibit “Satan in a Bottle: A History of the Production and Control of Alcoholic Beverages in North Carolina.” The free public exhibit will be open from today (June 16) through Aug. 31 in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The display tells the story behind a statewide alcohol ban begun in 1909, put into effect by North Carolina voters. The ban dried up the state’s successful legal market and stimulated illegal production – a decade before national prohibition was established by ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution in 1919. The exhibit explores the history of North Carolina’s moonshine and wine industries and the development of temperance and prohibition movements in the state. Other displays touch on alcohol’s relation to UNC history in the 1800s; its thematic role in music and folklore; its historic use in home remedies and patent medicines; law enforcement efforts to control the flow of illicit alcohol; and the tragedies caused by alcohol abuse and unsanitary conditions and methods used in the production of moonshine. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays; and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. For information or to request a guided tour, contact Neil Fulghum at (919) 962-1172 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Exhibit Web site: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/gallery/current_exhib.html. Exhibit contact: Neil Fulghum, (919) 962-1172, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Library contact: Judy Panitch, (919) 962-1301, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it News Services contact: LJ Toler (919) 962-8589 |