WGBY Public Television and the Springfield Museums will host a sneak preview and discussion of Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s new PBS documentary series Prohibition on Sunday, September 25, from 2-4 pm, at the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts at the Quadrangle. The program is free and open to the public.

The screening will be followed by Through Prohibition’s Historical Lens: Springfield, Women and the Nation, a panel discussion about the far-ranging effects of the era of bathtub gin, bootleggers and speakeasies. Panelists include Guy McLain, director of the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History; Kathleen Banks Nutter, archivist at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College; and Daniel Czitrom, professor of history at Mt. Holyoke College. They will discuss the social upheaval and other unintended consequences of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  

Those who would like to tour the museum exhibits before or after the program will need to purchase an admission ticket in the museum Welcome Center.

For information, call 413.263.6800, ext. 323.