She'll drink to that.
Posted on 06/05/2017 1:01:07 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Every June 5 National Moonshine Day is observed. This beverage has a notorious record of blurring the lines of history and the law, turning ordinary men (and women) into criminals and common criminals into legends.
Moonshine traditionally is an illegally distilled spirit. Mostly made from a corn mash, moonshine is a distilled whiskey that is typically produced by an individual illegally without a permit. Also known as white lightning, mountain dew, homebrew, hillbilly pop, rotgut and too many more to list here.
•Shepherd was Uncle Jesse’s CB handle on the Dukes of Hazzard. Sweet Tillie was the name of his Ford LTD/Galaxie in the first episode – his moonshine runner. •The X’s on the moonshine jugs symbol represents the number of times a batch was run through the still. If marked XXX, the moonshine is pure alcohol. •What do Esther Clark, Edna Giard, Stella Beloumant, Mary Wazeniak all have in common? They were all bootleggers. Bootlegging was an equal opportunity profession.
•Lavinia Gilman was a bootlegger, too. At 80 years old she ran a 300 gallon still in Montana.
The judge suspected her son was the true culprit, though.
•During prohibition, there were many ways to transport bootlegged moonshine.
Faking a funeral was a convenient ruse to move the product. Out of respect for the dead, of course, those with the badge were reluctant to stop a funeral procession.
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I bet they were 10’s. My buddy from Jesup had two sisters who were 10’s and their Daddy kept the shotgun by the door. Lol.
Moonshine
There are billboards advertising legal moonshine all up & down I-40 in Tennessee. Always have wondered how the law changed to allow that, both state and federal.
Still cheaper to buy standard brand whiskey, though.
A number of years ago I saw an Arkansas newspaper clipping that had the arrest of one of my relatives for moonshine. At least the name is in my genealogy and in the right area....shame on him : ^ )
They distillers got licenses and paid the federal tax.
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