Speakeasy

Carry A. Nation with Hatchet and Bible

Ken Burns Takes on Prohibition

By Clare Toohey

May 10, 2011

Can you identify this woman of modest raiment, resolutely bearing her Bible and hatchet? No, not Lizzie Borden, who tends to look positively serene in photos. This is Carry A. Nation (even if many misspell her as “Carrie” and the A. really stands for Amelia), crusader for national temperance, posed as if to enter a saloon…

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