Samuel B. Hand Memorial Lecture, Tuesday, October 20 (7:00 PM) Waterman Memorial Lounge, University of Vermont, Burlington.

Vermont had a raging problem with the abuse of opium, morphine, and heroin by the end of the nineteenth century. This happened right during the state's involvement with temperance and early adoption of prohibition in 1852. Speaker Gary Shattuck is a former federal prosecutor who specializes in researching and writing about historical events utilizing period legal documents.

Samuel B. Hand was a universal scholar, a historian, political scientist; a founding member of the Center for Research on Vermont and former Director of the Vermont Historical Society. This is the first in an annual lecture series given in his honor. Co-sponsored by the Center for Research on Vermont, the Vermont Historical Society and Special Collections at UVM Bailey-Howe Library.

Please call (802) 828 - 2180 for more information about this program or go to vermonthistory.org/calendar

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