Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Booze, Bars, Broads–and the Whiskey Drinking Women of 1820s Indianapolis

Tonight, the 2nd of the 3-part Ken Burns documentary series, “Prohibition,” airs on PBS, and as of this posting,  you can still catch up on episode 1 online. The era of prohibition, synonymous with the...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania His name was Dr. Cool. And he was one of our earliest…

…Drunkards. Yep, you read that right. HI’s October ‘theme’ is “Beers, Booze & Bars,” so in doing a little research on the early temperance movement in Indianapolis, chanced upon the story of Dr. Cool in...

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