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Subject:
temperance camps
From:
"K. Austin Kerr" <[log in to unmask]>
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Alcohol and Drugs History Society <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:49:10 -0500
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A librarian has written to me to inquire about temperance camps.  Seems that
there was such a thing near her home in Maryland in the 1870s.  She is
wondering if these sorts of camps were common and, if so, how common.  Also,
I am wondering just what were "temperance camps."  Does anyone know.

 

K. Austin Kerr

Professor Emeritus of History

Ohio State University

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