I planned my regular Tuesday post on Pre-temperance forebearer, Carrie A. Nation, who later changed her name to Carry A. Nation after her divorce from her second husband. But Rob beat my to it by several years. So Tuesday’s post will even be a surprise for me. Enjoy!
Take it away Rob.
Carrie Amelia Moore Nation (1846-1911), had a Moore punny name than any of us can ever dream of having. But there was nothing funny (haha at least not in the traditional sense – she may have been “funny peculiar”) about the self-proclaimed “anti-souse queen.”
Don’t know what that means? Well, to sum it up succinctly, she hated alcohol, and people who drank it. After her first husband died of alcoholism in 1869, Nation began a journey which would lead to her becoming the most famous member of the pre-Prohibition temperance movement.
Nation with hatchet, Bible, and fashionable spectacles. What a spectacular photograph!
Believing she had been given a divine ordination to destroy bars and their contents, Nation embarked on a multi-state mission to raid pubs, destroy their fixtures, and demolish their libations, while simultaneously singing hymns and saying prayers. Originally using rocks in these efforts, Nation switched to using hatchets…
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And all this time I thought Carrie Nation was a description of a country that watched too many Stephen King adaptations.
I’m just sure Carrie Nation came out somewhere between The Stand and Misery. :0
the perfect name and the perfect pic.
My thoughts exactly. )))
Wooo Carrie Nation! She was a hell of a lady.
She was way ahead of her time. In her case, instead of 3 strikes, you’re out. She was 30 strikes. That’s got to be a record.