The Georgetown Historical Society is hosting a Delaware Humanities Forum talk that I will do on Jan. 7th, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. at the Marvel Carriage Museum in Georgetown.
This lecture offers an intriguing look at the evolution of crime, punishment, and police work in Delaware from the colonial era to the mid-twentieth century. The fast-paced program examines old county jails, headline-grabbing criminal escapades of long ago, discontinued methods of punishment, and unheralded peace officers.
The Georgetown group has a particular interest in Delaware’s whipping post, so we will spend some time examining that subject. The goal of the program is to look at how crime and policing methods have changed by using any little-known stories of this often unexplored aspect of history.
The museum is located at 510 South Bedford Street in Georgetown.