Garrett Peck is a literary journalist and independent historian. He is the author of four books: The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet; Prohibition in Washington, DC: How Dry We Weren’t; The Potomac River: A History and Guide; and its sequel, The Smithsonian Castle and the Seneca Quarry. He leads the Temperance Tour of Prohibition-related sites in the nation’s capital, which has been featured on C-SPAN Book TV and on an upcoming History Channel program with punk legend Henry Rollins, and also leads tours of the Seneca quarry.

Peck was involved with the DC Craft Bartenders Guild in lobbying the DC City Council to have the Rickey declared Washington’s native cocktail in 2011, and is particularly proud that Green Hat Gin is named after a character that Peck wrote about in Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: congressional bootlegger George Cassiday. He is a frequent public speaker on America’s awkward social history with alcohol.

Peck is on the board of the Woodrow Wilson House and the Arlington Historical Society, and is a member of the  Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of D.C. A native Californian and VMI and George Washington University graduate, he lives in lovely Arlington, VA.

Peck’s latest book, The Smithsonian Castle and the Seneca Quarry, is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Politics & Prose and The History Press.