Hello friends and welcome to the first episode in our new series from Hatchets to Hoods,

the mayhem of Dry America.

And I cannot wait to talk to you about the origins of prohibition and how it ties into

the civil and women's rights movements and politics.

We're going to learn about a few key players you've probably never heard of and how temperance

and prohibition have connections to the Quaker community, Coca-Cola and even the Ku Klux

Clan.

We'll talk about Walter White, not the guy who started the Met Empire in Breaking Bad,

some shockingly scandalous things that were happening in Warren Harding's White House

and of course Al Capone and the iconic speakeasy culture of the 1920s.

We begin with today's episode about religious fervor and the women who were gutsy enough

to face social problems head on, a hatchet in hand.

I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where it gets interesting.

Carrie Moore was born in 1846 in Kentucky.

She was devoted to her father but never really felt connected to her mother who spent most

of her days struggling with her mental health.

When Carrie was 19, a young doctor came to their home to rent a room.

Dr. Charles Glouitt was smart and tall and dashing.

He was jovial, spoke several languages and had recently opened a small school nearby,

teaching there while he decided where to set up his medical practice.

And I mean if you are 19 year old Carrie, you are going to swim.

The couple courted by leaving little notes for each other inside volumes of Shakespeare

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