Marian, They, the bootleggers were all very comfortable and you would be shocked if you knew some of the names. I really feel like I know more about this than I should, especially when I do not drink other than wine, which is usually Thanksgiving and Christmas when I am stuck in the kitchen, my daughter when she is back home and before she left always helped me, I would have "just a small glass" it took me a couple of years to figure out why I was so relaxed by evening, by daughter kept filling the glass. I misplaced a bird half the size of a parrot and meal as could be. He turned up. I am going to watch, Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Clift <tlclift@esper.com> To: <TNUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Moonshine > If you can locate a copy of the cookbook "Food & Recipes of the Smokies" by > Rose Houk it has a great article on moonshine, aka white lightning, corn > squeezins, panther sweat, and scorpion juice. There is even a recipe. > Terry > > At 02:44 PM 10/5/99 -0400, you wrote: > >Just read this on another TN site and I'm forwarding to all of you since > >Union County has plenty of experience sharing stories. Don't know if anyone > >knew anyone who was involved in this, but if you do, you might contact this > >lady. In fact, I'd like to know the answer to this also. History, you > know. > > LOL Nina > > > >Subj: [TNGREENE-L] Re: Moonshine Industry in East Tennessee? > >Date: 10/5/99 1:05:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time > >From: dasha@unet.com.mk (Douglas/Ungaro) > >To: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com > > > > 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"? > > > > I've only seen things in the movies or on t.v., and would like to hear > >from people who really know. > > > > Thank you, Marian > > > > > > > > > >==== TNGREENE Mailing List ==== > >Don't forget to submit transcriptions of Wills, Deeds, > >and Family Bible pages. Check out the Greene County > >Research Helps page for details: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngreene/greehelp.htm > > > > > > > >----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- > >Return-Path: <TNGREENE-L-request@rootsweb.com> > >Received: from rly-yh02.mx.aol.com (rly-yh02.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.34]) > >by air-yh01.mail.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:05:46 -0400 > >Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by > >rly-yh02.mx.aol.com (v61.13) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:05:33 -0400 > >Received: (from slist@localhost) > > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA22588; > > Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:03:18 -0700 (PDT) > >Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:03:18 -0700 (PDT) > >Message-ID: <024a01bf0f53$e8498de0$89410dd4@anhoch> > >From: "Douglas/Ungaro" <dasha@unet.com.mk> > >Old-To: <TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> > >Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:46:35 +0200 > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >X-Priority: 3 > >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 > >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > >Subject: [TNGREENE-L] Re: Moonshine Industry in East Tennessee? > >Resent-Message-ID: <rXy62.A.igF.V9i-3@bl-14.rootsweb.com> > >To: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com > >Resent-From: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com > >X-Mailing-List: <TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2815 > >X-Loop: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com > >Precedence: list > >Resent-Sender: TNGREENE-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > >==== TNUNION Mailing List ==== > >How to unsubscribe. > >Send a message to TNUNION-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the > body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > > > > ==== 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. > >