Date: Tuesdays, July 12 & 19, 2022
Time: 2 - 4 PM
Place: ISU, Chestnut Building Room 107
Cost: $20 (book is included in price)

Come join Vigo County Historian, Tim Crumrin for a two session class on his newest book titled Terre Haute’s Notorious Red-Light District. The red-light district was home to uproarious saloons, swindling gambling dens, and thriving brothels. Terre Haute’s infamous West End was so wild the Chicago Tribune called it “the scene of a hundred all night carousings.” Pimps, pickpockets, and con men roamed the crowded streets where legendary Madam Edith Brown’s pleasure palace was the crown jewel of brothels. Yet more than a mere den of inequity, the West End was also a community that could put bickering differences aside and pull together to help their neighbors. And it wasn’t only a place for seedy enterprise, but also a place for stores, cafes, and homes.