Nevada historian Phillip Earl will lecture on the subject of prohibition March 14 at the National Automobile Museum in Reno.
The lecture is titled "Prohibition in Nevada: Drying up America's Wettest State." Earl will look at the history of anti-liquor campaigns in America, the temperance movement in Nevada's mining camps and the activities of groups such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League.
The lecture is sponsored by the Nevada Historical Society and begins at 7 p.m. March 14 in the museum building on Lake Street in downtown Reno.
More information is available from the Historical Society at 688-1190.