What do you think the old movie"Thunder Road" was about? Moonshinning in the hill of Ky and Tn. I always heard Cosby was the moonshinning capital of the world. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rae Davis-Smith [mailto:raedavissm@mindspring.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 4:54 PM > To: TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Moonshine > > > 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 ==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== If you live in Union County why not pitch in. Take a day and write down the tombstones in the nearest cemetery. Send it to us for others to use. You could be helping a cousin. Go to the courthouse and copy some early marriage records. Anything helps.