Saturday, January 19, 2013
The History Of Moonshine & The Clinch Mountain
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<font size="2">by Kathy Shearer</font> </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Candara">Softcover, 6"
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Oral histories and over 100 fine old pictures <br>
Index of names <br>
ISBN 978-097247656-0<br>
Clinch Mountain Press 2011<br>
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Margie Hayes Lawson, Brushy Ridge, Dickenson County,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unlike</font><font face="Arial""><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black"><font size="2">
the comic strip characters Snuffy Smith and Moonshine McSwine,
moonshiners worked hard to put food on the table during the Depression.
Nearly every secluded hollow in Far Southwest Virginia harbored a still
where men, children, and even some women labored and watched out for the
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<font size="2">This was a part of their heritage, going back to a time
before whiskey was taxed, and distilling was a normal part of the
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Tales From the Moonshine Trade </font></span></em>
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<i>A Scott County still. From left: "Wild Bill" Daugherty, Henk
Addington, and Hugh Jack Addington. Mel Dixon is standing behind
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<font size="2" face="Candara">Moonshiner James Hayes provided for his large
family by selling his whiskey to the Clinchfield Coal Corp. officials and
doctors in Dante, in Russell County. </font></i>
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