Please join us at Champlain College's eighth annual local history event, Maladies & Medicines: Opioids in the Queen City. This program will be held virtually on Wednesday April 7, 2021 from 7:00-8:30 pm.
What lessons can we learn about the opioid epidemic by looking at it through a historical lens? This event will feature two historians' ' research on opium, morphine, and opioid addiction in nineteenth-century Burlington. Independent scholar Gary G. Shattuck will present the history and context of opioids in the Queen City and the State of Ver mont in his talk titled Behind the Curtain: Examining the Causes of Addiction in Nineteenth-Century Vermont . Champlain College Special Collections Director Erica Donnis will present The Vibrant Life and Tragic Death of Lucy Benedict Henderson . A resident of Adams and South Union Streets, Mrs. Henderson (1861-1896) was in many ways an ordinary middle class wife and mother, but she suffered from chronic illness, and eventually, morphine addiction. Visit www.champlain.edu/localhistory for more information and to register for this free community event.
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