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Hey, history lovers.

I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

Carrie Amelia Nation.

Now, here was a woman who really didn't like the bar scene.

More than a century ago, dear Mrs. Nation, armed with a hatchet, you heard me right, a hatchet,

would storm into bars surrounded by a

phalanx of women. While they'd chant biblical sounding slogans expounding on the evils of liquor,

Nation would bash the place to smithereens. Sometimes, when she was in the right mood, she'd use rocks

and a hammer too.

Needless to say, nation would make quite a scene, glass and wood flying everywhere as stunned

drinkers watched and coward.

She didn't care much about collateral damage, though.

Back before the United States passed the 18th Amendment, better known as Prohibition,

100 years ago this week, Nation was the passionate but often shunned leader of the temperance

movement.

Nation was born in Kentucky, but her family moved around a lot, living in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and other nearby states.

Her father was a farmer who owns slaves.

Her mother had a history of mental illness.

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