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North Carolina Moonshine

Author : Frank Stephenson Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625855923
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book North Carolina Moonshine written by Frank Stephenson Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina holds a special place in the history of moonshine. For more than three centuries, the illicit home-brew was a way of life. NASCAR emerged from the illegal moonshine tradeas drivers such as Junior Johnson, accustomed to running from the law, moved to the racetrack. A host of colorful characters populated the state's bootlegging arena, like Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, known as the Paul Bunyan of moonshine, and Alvin Sawyer, considered the moonshine king of the Great Dismal Swamp. Some law enforcement played a constant cat-and-mouse game to shut down illegal stills, while some just looked the other way. Authors Frank Stephenson and Barbara Mulder reveal the gritty history of moonshine in the Tar Heel State.

Tar Heel Lightnin'

Author : Daniel S. Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469653556
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Tar Heel Lightnin' written by Daniel S. Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation's leading producer of bootleg liquor. Over the years, written accounts, popular songs, and Hollywood movies have turned the state's moonshiners, fast cars, and frustrated Feds into legends. But in Tar Heel Lightnin', Daniel S. Pierce tells the real history of moonshine in North Carolina as never before. This well-illustrated, entertaining book introduces a surprisingly varied cast of characters who operated secret stills and ran liquor from the swamps of the Tidewater to Piedmont forests and mountain coves. From the state's earliest days through Prohibition to the present, Pierce shows that moonshine crossed race and economic lines, linking men and women, the rebellious and the respectable, the oppressed and the merely opportunistic. As Pierce recounts, even churchgoing types might run shipments of "that good ol' mountain dew" when hard times came and there was no social safety net to break the fall. Folklore, popular culture, and changing laws have helped fuel a renaissance in making and drinking commercial moonshine, and Pierce shows how today's producers understand their ties to the past. Above all, this book reveals that moonshine's long, colorful history features surprises that can change how we understand a state and a region.

Moonshine

Author : Jaime Joyce
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 1627882073
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Moonshine written by Jaime Joyce and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing but clear, 100-proof American history. Hooch. White lightning. White whiskey. Mountain dew. Moonshine goes by many names. So what is it, really? Technically speaking, “moonshine” refers to untaxed liquor made in an unlicensed still. In the United States, it’s typically corn that’s used to make the clear, unaged beverage, and it’s the mountain people of the American South who are most closely associated with the image of making and selling backwoods booze at night—by the light of the moon—to avoid detection by law enforcement. In Moonshine: A Cultural History of America’s Infamous Liquor, writer Jaime Joyce explores America’s centuries-old relationship with moonshine through fact, folklore, and fiction. From the country’s early adoption of Scottish and Irish home distilling techniques and traditions to the Whiskey Rebellion of the late 1700s to a comparison of the moonshine industry pre- and post-Prohibition, plus a look at modern-day craft distilling, Joyce examines the historical context that gave rise to moonshining in America and explores its continued appeal. But even more fascinating is Joyce’s entertaining and eye-opening analysis of moonshine’s widespread effect on U.S. pop culture: she illuminates the fact that moonshine runners were NASCAR’s first marquee drivers; explores the status of white whiskey as the unspoken star of countless Hollywood film and television productions, including The Dukes of Hazzard, Thunder Road, and Gator; and the numerous songs inspired by making ’shine from such folk and country artists as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Alan Jackson, and Dolly Parton. So while we can’t condone making your own illegal liquor, reading Moonshine will give you a new perspective on the profound implications that underground moonshine-making has had on life in America.

Logs & Moonshine

Author : Suzanne Tate
Publisher : Nags Head Art, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781878405296
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Logs & Moonshine written by Suzanne Tate and published by Nags Head Art, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with: Jesse "Gus" Basnight, Nina Smith Basnight, Julia Jordan Haywood, Iona Basnight Padgett, Wilbur Pinner, Fred Sawyer recall life in Buffalo City in the early twentieth century.

Moonshiners & Revenuers: From Bootleggers to Arsonists - Atf's Battle Against Criminals in North Carolina

Author : Johnny C. Binkley
Publisher : Acclaim Press
ISBN 13 : 9781948901666
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Moonshiners & Revenuers: From Bootleggers to Arsonists - Atf's Battle Against Criminals in North Carolina written by Johnny C. Binkley and published by Acclaim Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its early days as a British Colony in the 1700s through much of the 20th century (and even today), the hills, hollers, and swamps of North Carolina have been a hotbed of illegal liquor activity. Indeed, making untaxed liquor has been a way of life handed down from generation to generation. To combat this problem, the US government created a special task force whose sole mission was to enforce federal liquor laws, catch the moonshiners, and seize and destroy their liquor stills and moonshine whiskey. Moonshiners and Revenuers is the true story of ATF Agent Johnny Binkley and his 25-years with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, from 1969-1994. During his career, the ATF transitioned from being the "redheaded stepchild of the IRS" working moonshine whiskey, to becoming the multi-jurisdictional independent bureau it is today. Follow Agent Binkley's career as the ATF transitioned its role from moonshine enforcement, to catching cigarette smugglers, and then to crimes involving explosives and narcotics. More than just a history with facts and dates, Binkley also describes the people (good guys and bad guys), events, situations, and places he encountered along the way. Read Moonshiners and Revenuers to learn the true story of an era that has come and gone with the changing times...or has it?

Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

Author : Bruce E. Stewart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813130174
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Moonshiners and Prohibitionists written by Bruce E. Stewart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol—an integral part of daily life for many Appalachians—was banned. In Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia, Bruce E. Stewart chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region's early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. Stewart analyzes the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord. Stewart also explores the life of the moonshiner and the many myths that developed around hillbilly stereotypes. A welcome addition to the New Directions in Southern History series, Moonshiners and Prohibitionists addresses major economic, social, and cultural questions that are essential to the understanding of Appalachian history.

Moonshine

Author : Alec Wilkinson
Publisher : Non Pareil Books
ISBN 13 : 9781567928051
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Moonshine written by Alec Wilkinson and published by Non Pareil Books. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of legendary liquor agent Garland Bunting, an American original who patrolled rural North Carolina when moonshiners worked their stills in the backcountry. For thirty-five years, Garland Bunting slid his "sweet potato shape--small at both ends and big in the middle" onto the front seat of his beat-up pickup with the coon dogs in the back to ride around in pursuit of moonshine stills in Halifax County, North Carolina. Bunting was true a one-of-a-kind, a man who would do nearly anything to get his culprit. To best the bootleggers, Bunting passed himself off as an outrageous array of characters, including a door-to-door fish peddler, a preacher, a farmer, a fox hunter, a sawmill worker, and a woman. Articulate, canny, imaginative, and aware--aware even that he's an unusual character--Bunting fills the foreground of Alec Wilkinson's deeply reported and elegantly told story. This is experiential, immersive, journalism at its best. Moonshine is a wonderfully alive portrait of both Bunting and rural North Carolina's coastal plain, with its landscape of small farms, woods, and swamps. We meet the people Bunting grew up with, his fellow liquor agents, his cronies, and his shy wife, Colleen. Along the way, we learn the history of moonshine and how it is made, and accompany Bunting on the stake-out of a small, backwoods still. For viewers who made Moonshiners a hit for 12 seasons on the Discovery Channel, this is the book they've been waiting for. All readers will find a story where the flavors of the past and present are richly intermingled. This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by acclaimed author Padgett Powell.

Lost Flowers

Author : Perry D. Sullivan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781482346671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Lost Flowers written by Perry D. Sullivan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Percy Flowers, a man who was both hard-edged and compassionate, a man who could love his son tenderly and make someone disappear in the middle of the night.

Tar Heel Lightnin'

Author : Daniel S. Pierce
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653567
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Tar Heel Lightnin' written by Daniel S. Pierce and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation's leading producer of bootleg liquor. Over the years, written accounts, popular songs, and Hollywood movies have turned the state's moonshiners, fast cars, and frustrated Feds into legends. But in Tar Heel Lightnin', Daniel S. Pierce tells the real history of moonshine in North Carolina as never before. This well-illustrated, entertaining book introduces a surprisingly varied cast of characters who operated secret stills and ran liquor from the swamps of the Tidewater to Piedmont forests and mountain coves. From the state's earliest days through Prohibition to the present, Pierce shows that moonshine crossed race and economic lines, linking men and women, the rebellious and the respectable, the oppressed and the merely opportunistic. As Pierce recounts, even churchgoing types might run shipments of "that good ol' mountain dew" when hard times came and there was no social safety net to break the fall. Folklore, popular culture, and changing laws have helped fuel a renaissance in making and drinking commercial moonshine, and Pierce shows how today's producers understand their ties to the past. Above all, this book reveals that moonshine's long, colorful history features surprises that can change how we understand a state and a region.

King of the Moonshiners

Author : Bruce E. Stewart
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572336404
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book King of the Moonshiners written by Bruce E. Stewart and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lewis R. Redmond was an archetypal moonshiner. On March 1, 1876, the twenty-one-year-old North Carolinian shot and killed a U.S. deputy marshal who tried to arrest him on charges of illicit distilling. He then fled to Pickens County, South Carolina, where, within three years, he gained national notoriety as the "King of the Moonshiners." More than any other individual moonshiner in southern Appalachia, Redmond captured the imagination of middle-class Americans. Then, as now, media coverage had a lot to do with his reputation.".

Driving with the Devil

Author : Neal Thompson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307522261
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Driving with the Devil written by Neal Thompson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind NASCAR’s hardscrabble, moonshine-fueled origins, “fascinating and fast-moving . . . even if you don’t know a master cylinder from a head gasket” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). “[Neal] Thompson exhumes the sport’s Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history.”—Time Today’s NASCAR—equal parts Disney, Vegas, and Barnum & Bailey—is a multibillion-dollar conglomeration with 80 million fans, half of them women, that grows bigger and more mainstream by the day. Long before the sport’s rampant commercialism lurks a distant history of dark secrets that have been carefully hidden from view—until now. In the Depression-wracked South, with few options beyond the factory or farm, a Ford V-8 became the ticket to a better life. Bootlegging offered speed, adventure, and wads of cash. Driving with the Devil reveals how the skills needed to outrun federal agents with a load of corn liquor transferred perfectly to the red-dirt racetracks of Dixie. In this dynamic era (the 1930s and ’40s), three men with a passion for Ford V-8s—convicted felon Raymond Parks, foul-mouthed mechanic Red Vogt, and war veteran Red Byron, NASCAR’s first champ—emerged as the first stock car “team.” Theirs is the violent, poignant story of how moonshine and fast cars merged to create a sport for the South to call its own. In the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit, this tale captures a bygone era of a beloved sport and the character of the country at a moment in time.

The Moonshiner's Daughter

Author : Donna Everhart
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496717031
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Moonshiner's Daughter written by Donna Everhart and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you fell in love with 1960s North Carolina when reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Donna Everhart’s The Moonshiner’s Daughter will transport you right back. Everhart’s sensitive and expert storytelling will capture you in this Southern coming-of-age novel! Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner’s Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family’s past . . . Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser’s daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she’s concerned, moonshine caused her mother’s death a dozen years ago. Her father refuses to speak about her mama, or about the day she died. But Jessie has a gnawing hunger for the truth—one that compels her to seek comfort in food. Yet all her self-destructive behavior seems to do is feed what her school’s gruff but compassionate nurse describes as the “monster” inside Jessie. Resenting her father’s insistence that moonshining runs in her veins, Jessie makes a plan to destroy the stills, using their neighbors as scapegoats. Instead, her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges. As she endeavors to right wrongs old and new, Jessie’s loyalties will bring her to unexpected revelations about her family, her strengths—and a legacy that may provide her with the answers she has been longing for.

The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton

Author : Neal Hutcheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578654140
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton written by Neal Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Appalachian moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, filled with color photography, exclusive interviews, historical background, and extensive accounts of his life and times.

Moonshine, Murder and Mountaineers

Author : Janie Ledford Cook
Publisher : Chestnut Ridge
ISBN 13 : 9780990865704
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Moonshine, Murder and Mountaineers written by Janie Ledford Cook and published by Chestnut Ridge. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Cove, North Carolina

Author : Christy A. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686084
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Lost Cove, North Carolina written by Christy A. Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located just seconds from the winding Tennessee border, the remote mountain settlement of Lost Cove, North Carolina was once described as where the "moonshiner frolics unmolested." Today, Lost Cove is a ghost town accessible mainly to hikers hoping to catch a glimpse of the desolate settlement. In this first historically comprehensive book on Lost Cove, the author paints a portrait of an isolated yet thriving settlement that survived for almost one hundred years. From its founding before the Civil War to the town's ultimate decline, Lost Cove's history is an in-depth account of family life and kinship in isolation. The author explores historically relevant interviews and genealogical findings from railroad documents, old newspaper articles, church records and deeds. Also included are oral histories that provide authentic, conversational accounts from families in the cove.

Distilling the South

Author : Kathleen Purvis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640627
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Distilling the South written by Kathleen Purvis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensively throughout the South to create this first-ever guide to the region's burgeoning craft-liquor movement, capturing her journey in the creation of six original Liquor Trails. As fascinating as the craft itself are the distillers' experiences and backstories. Purvis chronicles them with verve and insight, bringing her knowledge of southern foodways and traditions to bear on the flourishing of the distiller's art. She shows how new entrepreneurs, part of the all-American food and drink renaissance, are positioning themselves to find both the inspiration and land ranging from West Virginia to Louisiana for their farm- or farm-ingredients-based distilleries. They are creating new and sought-after bourbons, whiskies, rums, gins, and much more. Their cordials are flavored with pumpkins, raspberries, peaches, and other local products; not long ago, a West Virginian's black walnut liqueur won the prize for the best nut cordial at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Driven by legacy and passion, today's distillers are creating a new southern tradition--one that you can now explore with an inimitable writer. Each Liquor Trail covers one or several states and features particularly worthy distilleries that Purvis has personally selected. The trails also feature maps, a complete listing of distilleries in each territory, on-site photographs, and some dynamite drink recipes direct from the distillers.

Moonshine

Author : John Schlimm
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806539216
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Moonshine written by John Schlimm and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White lightning . . . XXX . . . Firewater. Whatever you call it, moonshine is America’s original rebel spirit. This ultimate must-have for aspiring moonshine connoisseurs, boozy history buffs, and party seekers everywhere is a buzz-worthy ride through moonshine’s legendary history. From its roots in the hollows of Appalachia and keeping the good times flowing through Prohibition to its headlining status today as a pop culture icon, Moonshine tells the rip-roaring story of the moonshiners who became folk heroes for the ages and how their batches of XXX endure as the favorite thirst-quencher of millions. While stirring the rebel in each of us, Moonshine also gives you a bootleg up on hosting get-togethers and parties with a dream stash of 100 recipes for infusions and cocktails using moonshine as a main ingredient—Moonshine Monkey, Dirt Road Colada, Lemongrass & Mint Mojito, Smokey Mountain S’More, and many more. Plus, other fun-starters throughout the book include moonshine-themed playlists and a how-to for throwing an unforgettable moonshiner’s movie night. Moonshine: A Celebration of America’s Original Rebel Spirit proves once and for all that the best things in life still come in jugs and Mason jars.