North Carolina

[EmtheFishLady]

Grow a bit longer beard and skip a bath for a couple days and you could be popcorn Sutton!

 

[Junkmanme]

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Is Popcorn Sutton that East Tennessee "moonshiner" that I read about?

 

[Junkmanme]

Yep. That was him....I looked him up on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Sutton

-Junkmanme-

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Is Popcorn Sutton that East Tennessee "moonshiner" that I read about?

He was a really nice old man. A little "odd" maybe. There were days he's smell a bit... But overall I liked him. And he made some GOOD stuff.

 

[Junkmanme]

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Em,

That "Popcorn" Sutton fella was raised not to far from where YOU live.

I've got a relative buried down in the Nantahala National Forest. It could be my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather. There's some kind of monument there saying he was an "Indian Fighter". That G-G-G-Grandfather of mine was a soldier in the Cherokee Indian Removal of 1838. Same Name...Same Time....might be....

I do know that quite of few of my ancestors (and some relatives more recent) were quite adept at producing "White Liquor".

-Junkmanme-

P.S. When I was 14 years old...I built my own "still". My Father made me take it apart...He said I built it WRONG. He told me he would show me how to do it right. But... he never did.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Em,

That "Popcorn" Sutton fella was raised not to far from where YOU live.

I've got a relative buried down in the Nantahala National Forest. It could be my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather. There's some kind of monument there saying he was an "Indian Fighter". That G-G-G-Grandfather of mine was a soldier in the Cherokee Indian Removal of 1838. Same Name...Same Time....might be....

I do know that quite of few of my ancestors (and some relatives more recent) were quite adept at producing "White Liquor".

-Junkmanme-

P.S. When I was 14 years old...I built my own "still". My Father made me take it apart...He said I built it WRONG. He told me he would show me how to do it right. But... he never did.

I know, I met him once or twice when I was younger.

Back when my uncle used to go up there to "have a visit"

My great grandmother was full Cherokee Indian, my Great Grandfather was Irish.

Anytime people say anything about my temper, I blame them.

 

[Junkmanme]

I think a LOT of the people whose families have been there a LONG TIME have "Indian Blood".
One of my Great-Great Grandmothers was Indian....probably Cherokee. She lived in Polk County, NC (a part of Rutherford County back in her days..)
When I was last there...in the mid 1980s....there were yet "stills" operating on the mountain where she lived.

-Junkmanme-

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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I'm sure there still are here and there. It's not a dead art, but it is dying.

 

[Junkmanme]

The LAST that I bought down there (in the late 1970s) cost $ 16.00 for a quart Mason-Jar. At that time, a person could buy a quart of Jack Daniels for $ 12.00

(Of course, Jack Daniels wasn't 160 Proof !!! )

-Junkmanme-

 

[BookWorm243]

Hey em did those game ever show

I am still fighting off this stupid flu.