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Dry Voters, Wet Drinkers: The Anniversary of Virginia’s Prohibition

Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the first day of Virginia’s state-wide prohibition. To see more about the build-up to the referendum that dried up…

Claire RadcliffeNovember 1, 2016

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Settling the Liquor Question: The 1914 Referendum and Prohibition in Virginia

Talk about spooky! Although the 18th Amendment didn’t institute nation-wide prohibition in the U.S. until January 1920, Virginia banned alcohol at the stroke of midnight on…

Claire RadcliffeOctober 31, 2016

Archives

"How Dry I Am!" – The Virginia Prohibition Commission Records

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in The Delimiter, the Library’s in-house on-line newsletter. It has been shortened and edited slightly. This week Out of the Box would like…

Laura Drake DavisJuly 24, 2013

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Lawless!

On 29 August, the movie Lawless, starring Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, and Jessica Chastain, opens around the country. Based on the bestselling novel The Wettest County in…

Greg CrawfordAugust 29, 2012

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"Dead! And Never Called Me Mother!"

"Jugglery, slight of hand , comic concerts, and songs” brought the congregation of Centenary Methodist Church and members of the Sons of Temperance, Pendleton Division…

Bari HelmsAugust 22, 2012

Newspapers

Anti-Liquor, College, and Charlottesville papers donated to LVA

Recently, the Library of Virginia received generous gifts of historical Virginia newspapers from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and Christopher Newport University.The Tennessee State Library and…

Kelley EwingAugust 17, 2012