Can someone share any stories about the trade in "bootleg liquor" in the >old days? Was this big in east Tennessee and nearby? Did people get some >income this way? Were there "revenuers"? >From what my grandparents and some of my other family members raised in East Tennessee, have told me, it must have been a common thing ... My grandfather had a still all his life, I don't know if he sold it, he probably did...He never worked a day in his life except at that still...There are stills yet in those hills...I know of several places now to buy moonshine...When I go to visit my family on a certain mountain in East Tennessee, if I have a different vehicle than the last time I visited, I am followed by the people who own the still and they are fully armed...When they stop me and find out that I am just visiting my family, they let me go..this has been happening for so long that it doesn't scare me anymore...LOL...When I was small and visiting my grandparents, the stories they told at night before we went to bed were of revenuers and the close calls they had with them..One of my family members used to get his wife to shoot out the door into the air with his hunting rifle when she saw the sheriff coming so he and his boys would hear it at the still and run... > Rae Smith http://www.angelfire.com/tn/sexton/webring.html http://www.angelfire.com/de/LawDog/index.html http://www.angelfire.com/de/LawDog/Inspection.html