Leisure Hour Club members will join Gayle and David Woodruff for a Chautauqua performance that will help take a step back in time to when Reno was the divorce capital of the nation.
Local authors and historians David and Gayle Woodruff will recognize Reno has long been known as “The Biggest Little City,” but it wasn’t just the introduction of legalized gambling in 1931 that brought the town its fame. For the first half of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people came to the Truckee River town, to get a “quickie” dissolution to their marriage.
The Woodruffs assume the Reno Divorce Ranch characters of Clive and Vivian Sterling, as they recount the unique, interesting and often amusing history of the Reno divorce industry and its divorce ranches in the 1930s through the 1960s.
The Leisure Hour Club, established in September 1896, is Carson City’s oldest continuously meeting social organization. The organization is focused on its goal of promoting knowledge on important issues, science, music and literature. Its motto of "Let knowledge grow from more to more" comes from Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam.
Information on joining the organization, or for reservations to attend the dinner/meeting on Jan. 9, call 775-302-8820 or email lhcreservations@gmail.com.