How Whiskey Won Washington
Location: Franklin County Historical Society
Address: 423 W Bonneville St Pasco WA 99301
Contact Email: edaugherty@columbiabasin.edu
Website: Event Link
Date: Thursday June 17, 2027
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Price: Free
In person Lecture: How Whiskey Won Washington by Becky Garrison
Washington has a mixed history with liquor. Efforts to ban or restrict it date back to 1854, before the region even attained statehood, and “blue laws” remained on the books well into the twentieth century. Yet a modern craft distilling boom is happening in the Evergreen State, and our distillers have emerged as forerunners in the burgeoning American Single Malt revolution.
How did whiskey inspire both trouble and innovation? How did its import by settlers affect Indigenous communities and other groups? And how did whiskey play a role in the very creation of our state?