Drinks, Drugs & Debauchery: A History of Seattle's Prohibition Era with Brad Holden

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum invites you to travel back in time with local historian Brad Holden as he tells the spectacular story of Seattle in the time of Prohibition. Have no fear, this trip into the era of strict liquor laws will be followed by appetizers and a beer and wine reception.

The second part of the series chronicles the fascinating life of one of Seattle's legendary figures in Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard: Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer. Seattle has a long tradition of being at the forefront of technological innovation. In 1919, an eager young inventor named Alfred M. Hubbard made his first newspaper appearance with the announcement of a perpetual motion machine that harnessed energy from Earth's atmosphere. From there, Hubbard transformed himself into a charlatan, bootlegger, radio pioneer, top-secret spy, millionaire and uranium entrepreneur. In 1953, after discovering the transformative effects of a little-known hallucinogenic compound,…