Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction. White Lightnin’
1. Whiskey’s “Golden Era” in North Carolina
2. From Distiller to Blockader to Moonshiner
3. Normalizing the Moonshiner
4. A “Dry” State
5. Modern Moonshine
6. North Carolinians “Hard at Work Making That Stuff That Splits the Heads of Many”
7. Chasing the Moon
8. National Prohibition in North Carolina
9. Moonshine Kingpins and Moonshine Capitals
10. Prohibition, Moonshine, and North Carolina Culture
11. 1941 to 1970—The Heyday of the Moonshine Syndicate
12. The Road to Thunder Road
13. North Carolina Moonshine, NASCAR, and the “Bootlegger Tracks”
14. The End of an Era
15. Moonshine Revival
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
A Note on Sources
Index
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Sidebars
	The North Carolina Moonshine Hall of Fame (and Shame)
	Brandy
	All in the Family
	Amos Owens
	Lewis Redmond
	What’s in a Name?
	Rhoda Strong Lowry
	Baptists and Booze
	Carrie Nation in North Carolina
	Liquor Lingo
	Elizabeth “Betty” Sims
	On the “Man’s” Land
	Aquilla “Quill” Rose
	Unique Stills
	Howard Creech
	Alvin Sawyer
	Moonshine and Tourism
	Ada Thompson
	Moonshine Humor
	Percy Flowers
	Tripper Cars
	The Moonshiners of The Andy Griffith Show
	Ralph “Puff” and Grafton “Tuff” Burgess
	Robert Glenn “Junior” Johnson
	Jerry Rushing
	A North Carolina Moonshine Playlist
	Jim Tom Hedrick and Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton
	A North Carolina Moonshine Tour