[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the museum of art. My name is ellen and i am a senior manager of adult programs. Its good to see everyone here today. And as many of you know, lunch and learn as a Monthly Program where we invite Community Experts to share their knowledge of interesting cincinnati history, culture and arts. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all. And at this institutions history for nearly 200 years the Historic House served as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin boehm, nicholas longworth, david and of course charles and anna taft. Each played a role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati and this series i ses rights that legacy as well as the new way of our city continues to evolve and change. The complete schedule of all of the programs including our upcoming lunch and learns are available on the website, which is www. Taftmuseum. O
Nashville, august, 1920. What was it like . Oh, it was bedlam. This is a sleepy Southern City in the middle of sister. The legislature is usually in resource. It is a time when you drink tea and sit on your porch and nashville became the center of the political universe of the United States for several weeks in the summer of 1920 because tennessee might be the last and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment and if the Tennessee Legislature did, then women across the country, in every state, in every election for the first time, all women, would have the right to vote. And it was all coming down to tennessee and it got really wild. How many women were in america at that point, voting age . About 27 million women were of voting age. Now, of course, not all would vote and as we know for africanamerican women and for asian women and for native american women, they would not be allowed to vote under the 19th the 19th amendment did give the vote to all women, but jim crow laws in the so
Today. As many of you know, lunch and learn as a Monthly Program where we invite Community Experts to share their knowledge of interesting aspects of cincinnati history, culture, and arts. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all, and it fits neatly into our history. For nearly 200 years our Historic Houses serve as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin baum, nicholas longworth, and, of course, charles taft. Each resident plays an Important Role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati, this series celebrates their legacies as well as the new way our city continues to evolve and change. The complete schedule of all of our fall programs include our upcoming lunch and learns are available on our website which is www. Taft museum. Org. I would like to tell you about our talk today. Today we have offered of newly released book, the bourbon king the life and crimes of george remus
One of our members, one of you all and it fits neatly into our institutions history. For nearly 200 years, our Historic House has served as an Important Community Gathering Place or prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin baum, nicholas longworth, David Simpson and of course carl and anna taft. Each resident played an Important Role in shaping the history, art of cincinnati and this series celebrates their legacies aswell as the new ways our city continues to evolve and change. The complete schedule of all our fall programs including our upcoming lunch and learns are available on our website which is taftmuseum. Org. Today we have author of newly released book the bourbon king the life and crimes of george remus, prohibitions evil genius. Bob batchelor is here to share with us the story of george remus, the king who built the bourbon empire that stretched from his cincinnati matching mansion across america at the dawn of prohibition. Batchelor is a critically acclaimed be
And im adam clements. It is warm outside. Spring like if you will. Meteorologist brandon orr has your no wait weather. If you thought it was nice yesterday, wait till you see today. We saw wind gusts yesterday at 53 Miles Per Hour. Certainly not as windy today as it was yesterday. We do have clouds around from time to time. Fiftyone degrees. So were Getting Started warm. A lot of us will be in the 50s. Some of us will drop in the 40s but were dry on precision doppler 12 h. D. You see the clouds moving in from the west. Dont see any green. Were not looking for any rainout of this. Well see partly cloudy sky as we get to around midday. Then i think well see the clouds clear out. Sixtyeight degrees will be our more than 20 degrees above average this time of year. Still keeping clear skies. Coming up in fifteen minutes we talk about rain that moves in tomorrow. Well go over by the hour by hour timing of that shortly guys. Neighbors look out for neighbors thats what we do. In madisonville t