Download or read book Moonshine in the Hills of North Georgia written by D. Arnold Buffington and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Georgia Moonshine written by Judith Garrison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s, moonshine was a way of life, and nearly every resident lived it. Out of the woods of North Georgia and Habersham County came Virgil Lovell, his boys, their recipe and their legacy. The family went from illegal to legal, and their product stands today as a testament to the determination of the region to hold on to its roots. Joining their story were hundreds just like them-liquor makes like Glenn Johnson-all professing theirs was the best. Through firsthand accounts from the Lovells and extensive research, author Judith Garrison revives the story of liquor making and a Georgia legacy. Book jacket.
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 166 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.
Download or read book The Field of Justice written by William A. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAN'T DO WHAT YOU DIDN'T. CAN'T UNDO WHAT YOU DID. 1887: JAMES GODARD, A CANTANKEROUS OLD MAN, had fled from his past to live far up in the mountains of Towns County, Georgia. Tilmon Justice was a young man working hard to provide for his growing family in the insular Appalachian world, but he had the odds stacked against him. What these two men had in common was a land boundary-and a history with moonshine. Their feud comes to a violent and inevitable conclusion, tearing apart families in a small community. This story has been documented in newspaper articles and in the handwritten court transcript from the murder trial-now retold for us here through the imagination of one of the character's descendants. Dr. William Akins Thomas, Jr., is the great-great-great grandson of James Bennett Godard. His genealogical research, vivid imagination, and engaging writing have brought to life another tale from the pages of his own family history.
Download or read book Moonshine written by Jaime Joyce and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV/divDIVNothing but clear, 100-proof American history./divDIV /divDIVHooch. 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./divDIV /divDIVIn 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./div
Download or read book Moonshine Over Georgia written by Chris Skates and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Western Georgia, 1946. C.E. "Kid" Miller knows well the evil found in a jug. Disgusted by the husbands he's pulled out of the woods blind drunk and covered in vomit, the wail of their starving children haunts the revenue agent's dreams. But his attempts to recruit an insider to snitch on a major bootlegging operation put him on the wrong end of a gun barrel. With his own life on the line and the gangs growing bolder and more violent, he worries his work demolishing stills will only make his beloved wife a distraught widow. And as the courageous lawman hunts down his now-missing informant, he fears he's hurtling toward an inevitable showdown with the state's most notorious crime boss. Facing betrayal at every turn and a million places to hide a body, can he free the land of soul-destroying corruption before he's thrown in a shallow grave? Based on a true-life account, author Chris Skates takes readers into a world vastly different from the good ol' boy exploits depicted on popular TV. Drawing on his grandfather's years of tireless and perilous operations, prison interviews, and historical documents, Skates escorts the reader to a time in America full of heartbreak and breathtaking bravery."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book More Mountain Spirits written by Joseph Earl Dabney and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Mountain Spirits is an expansion of its predecessor Mountain Spirits, but its also a treasure all its own. Recipes for all kinds of spirits are included: brandy, wine, and beer made from every fruit or vegetable you can think of, ranging from blackberry brandy to tomato beer to rhubarb wine. Of course, recipes for corn whiskey and real apple cider are included, too. Youll also meet more colorful charactersthose who were making, transporting, and selling spirits, as well as those who were tracking and arresting them. Theres also a 36-page, step-by-step illustrated guide to building a copper pot still!
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:
Download or read book Moonshine Murder and Mountaineers written by Allen Cook and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the turn of the twentieth century, a rural county located in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains made national headlines as the most lawless place in America. Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians' Willie Parker Peace History Book Award, Moonshine, Murder & Mountaineers: The Wildest County in America recounts a time when moonshiners and desperadoes faced off against lawmen in epic battles that made national headlines. The book focuses on actual events from an area in western North Carolina that held the reputation as the wildest county in America. With a masterful blend of entertaining stories supported by historical documentation, the reader is given an exciting account of true events.Moonshine, Murder & Mountaineers also provides readers with historical and genealogical reference points. The names of real people are used throughout the book. An index of names is provided for ancestry research. Old newspaper and court documents are quoted on numerous occasions and provide a solid historical reference point to the accounts. The book is written in a format to both entertain and inform. Entertaining and exciting stories are followed by a chapter documenting historically accurate research. This format takes the reader back in time through vivid short stories and allows one to make their own opinion of the events based on the facts. Moonshine, Murder & Mountaineers: The Wildest County in America will prove to be a fun and informative read!
Download or read book Mountain Spirits written by Joseph Earl Dabney and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moonshine Murder and Mayhem in Georgia written by Olin Jackson and published by Legacy Communications. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of bizarre, grisly and breath-taking incidents which have occurred in Georgia over the past 200 years. All of the accounts are true and factual. Information collected by reliable researchers from historic newspaper articles, court records, legal documents, personal interviews and first-person accounts. Includes over 400 amazing period photographs. Includes full-name and subject indexes for reference purposes.
Download or read book North Georgia Moonshine written by Judith Garrison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s, moonshine was a way of life, and nearly every resident lived it. Out of the woods of North Georgia and Habersham County came Virgil Lovell, his boys, their recipe and their legacy. The family went from illegal to legal, and their product stands today as a testament to the determination of the region to hold on to its roots. Joining their story were hundreds just like them--liquor makers like Glenn Johnson--all professing theirs was the best. Through firsthand accounts from the Lovells and extensive research, author Judith Garrison revives the story of liquor making and a Georgia legacy.
Download or read book Tigerific written by Michael J. Cannon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genuine Great Gatsby's thrilling, bigger than real life, stranger than fiction, true story? He triumphs over his condescending bootlegger father... using his God given sixth sense, the eye-of-the tiger, to reel in his prey. And he becomes the celebrated kingpin of gambling and the Good-time Charlie of the Southeastern United States. Who hasn't said... I know a Weird-Wiley or Naughty-Nancy? Their adventures, or escapades, would make a great book or movie. This is that gripping story, 'Tigerific, ' aka 'Sizzle... Days of Moonshine and Roses," penned as a 96,000-word count narrative, laced with, romance, sex, and dark humor and is the for real 'American Hustle.' Vaughn Jesse Cannon, born in Tiger, Georgia is one of America's most notorious, colorful characters. Legend says; "A tiger prowls the mountain outside town. Vaughn has the Midas touch, getting the advantage in moneymaking deals, but makes terrible life choices in his non-stop over-the-top personal life. Showing his pompous Pa and Ma, he ain't 'a no-account-loser' and is worth more 'than a pile of shit boy!' Vaughn is the South's "Al Capone of gambling." He is not a real gangster but needs heaps of money to support his lavish life style. Encountering one life changing challenge after another, he amasses three personal fortunes. Vaughn is the envy of most men, the irresistible dream date of every woman getting a glimpse of him. The real 'Scarlett O'Hara, ' Vivien Leigh, is more than infatuated by him when they meet at the premiere of 'Gone with Wind' in Atlanta, Georgia. They later have a hot fling in a Hollywood brothel. In 1949, the celebrated columnist, Drew Pearson wrote of him... "The dapper son of a Georgia moonshiner is the king of the slot machine rackets in six southern states. He is as rich and powerful as Al Capone and is a king indeed... the King of Coins."
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.
Download or read book Operation Moonshine written by Licensed Beverage Industries and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1940-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book The Appalachians written by Mari-Lynn Evans and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when the world has become a global village and America a global nation, there is one place where things are largely as they used to be. Protected by mountains, largely ignored by modern industry and developers, Appalachia is America’s first and last frontier. Encom-passing more than 195,000 square miles in thirteen states, it possesses the least understood and most underappreciated culture in the United States. A beautifully produced companion volume to the PBS documentary narrated by Naomi Judd, The Appalachians fills the void in information about the region, offering a rich portrait of its history and its legacy in music, literature, and film. The text includes essays by some of Appalachia’s most respected scholars and journalists; excerpts from never-before-published diaries and journals; firsthand recollections from native Appalachians including Loretta Lynn, Ricky Skaggs, and Ralph Stanley; indigenous song lyrics and poetry; and oral histories from common folk whose roots run strong and deep. The book also includes more than one hundred illustrations, both archival and newly created. Here is a wondrous book celebrating a unique and invaluable cultural heritage.
