>>INTRODUCED YOU TO FRANKLIN COUNTY MOONSHINERS BACK IN EARLY APRIL AND TONIGHT WE TAKE
A DEEPER LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF
MOONSHINE OPERATIONS AND WHERE
LOCALS COULD GET
A DRINK WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY
ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT RAIDS
DURING PROHIBITION 10 NEWS
REPORTER DO CARTER SHARES THE
HIDDEN MOONSHINE SPOTS IN
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
>>IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWEST, VIRGINIA YOU CAN FIND DEEP CULTURAL ROOTS AND A
RICH HISTORY AND IN
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
HE HAS A DEEP HISTORY OF
MOONSHINE.
>>IT WAS A WAY OF LIFE.
IT WAS HOW A LOT OF
IF THEIR FAMILIES THEY GET THROUGH SOME OF THE SCHOOL’S ROOF, SOME THE CHURCH IS LINDA
STANLEY IS WITH THE FRANKLIN
COUNTY HISTORICAL SITE.
>>AND THAT THE ONLY
AND REALLY THAT MUCH AS
THE MOM WAS NOT PAY
TAXES ON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
BECAUSE IT DIDN’T HAVE A
LICENSE AND STANLEY KNOWS A LOT
ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MOONSHINE
IN FRANKLIN COUNTY.
>>FROM THE GOOD.
>>I’M NOT SAYING THEY DIDN’T SHOOT HIM UP AND THEY DIDN’T BEAT EACH OTHER UP THEY DIDN’T
HAVE THEY PLEASE AND ALL THAT
KIND
OF THING BASICALLY THEY WILL
>>THAT PEOPLE LOOKING TO
HAVE A GOOD TIME WHEN MOVES AND
WAS PROHIBITED IN
SOUTHWEST, VIRGINIA.
NOW TO DRINK WILL SHINE AND NOT
GET CAUGHT WITH THE LAW.
THERE WERE SEVERAL SPEAKEASY
LOCATIONS OR AS THEY CALL IT.
THE RULES IN PARTICULAR IN
FRANKLIN COUNTY AT T WAS.
>>SO YOU WIN AND IN THE
FRONT LINE.
THE ONE AT THE COUNTRY CLUB OUT
ON NORTH
MAIN STREET, HE WENT IN THE
FRONT AND YOU CAN GET A
HAMBURGER THE COCOA LOW, BUT IF
YOU WANTED,
BUT IF YOU WANTED FROM A LITTLE
STRONGER EWING THAT THE WHITE
PERSON YOU WENT IN THE BACK.
>>NOW GET THIS STANLEY SAYS
THEY’VE LOCATED 14 SEE ROOMS IN
FRANKLIN COUNTY. NOW HERE’S ONE THAT IS COVERED IN SHRUBS NOT TOO FAR AWAY FROM
ROCKY MOUNT AND AT THIS SPOT IN
ROCKY MOUNT IS ANOTHER THAT IS
NO
LONGER THERE.
WHILE FOLKS CAN ENJOY FOR THAT
LIQUOR AT TEA ROOMS WITHOUT
CONCERNS OF
THE LAW MOOSE EARNERS HAVE TO
LEARN HOW TO FINESSE TO MAKE
SURE THEY ALSO WERE NOT CAUGHT.
>>YOU MAKE A LITTLE THOUGH LIFE
LOOK GREAT.
>>THIS ISN’T
REALLY LAW.
A 3RD GENERATION MOONSHINERS
SCHOOLING ME ON HOW THEY
OPERATE NOW THIS SEGMENT THAT
WAS USING IT ENSURES THE
ALCOHOL, IT DOESN’T GET MESSED
UP.
I GOT IT’S NOT
MUCH.
>>THEY JUST KEPT THE FIRST ONE
THAT WE WOULD DO THAT ALL THE
WAY DOWN AND WE’LL PUT SOME ARE
ISLANDS KAPUR HERE AND THIS
TEAM HITS IT COACH REAL HARD
AND WILL
NOT ONLY.
>>NOW IMAGINE DOING THIS WHEN
IT WAS ILLEGAL TO MAKE A LIVING
AND
FEED FAMILIES IT REALLY LAW
SAYS HE GOT A THRILL OUT OF IT
ESPECIALLY AFTER GETTING AWAY
FROM THE LAW, THE FIRST TIME I
GOT RAN.
THEY ALSO
CAME AROUND IT WAS JUST CRACK
AND AMY CAME AROUND GRAMMY
AROUND AND THAT GRAHAM APART
AROUND HIM THAT BOTH OF THE
SAME
>>YOU KNOW
THIS GUY HE HAS AND GO HOME IS
NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT THE GRAB 2
DOZEN SAME TIME.
BRASS RUN UP A
FEW SECONDS.
I BROKE LOSE MY BUDDY WENT TO
GROUND HIS OWN TOM A BUDDY
COMEDY AND I GOT AWAY.
AND I’M
LIKE WOW MAN WHAT A RUSH AND
YOU COULD BE ON WHAT SHOULD BE
LAST 3, 4 $5,000.
BUT YOU’VE GOT AWAY.
>>THE LAW SAYS THOSE TYPE OF INTERACTIONS WITH THE LAW CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE EARLY
PARTS OF HIS MOON SHOT HERE IN
THE 70’S NOW DEEP IN THE WOODS,
A
FRANKLIN COUNTY POLICE WOULD
REMOVE SAID RINGS ARE LOCATIONS
BY DESTROYING THE SUB’S FOR
MOOSE THAT WAS MADE
WITH TAXES WERE SOME LAW
ENFORCEMENT WHICH IS SEES THE
MOST ARDENT CASTAWAY NOW HERE’S
THE INTERESTING
PART THOUGH THE LAW SAYS IF THE
GOT AWAY THEY WILL FIND ANOTHER
SPOT AT FIRST THE COUNTY WOODS,
THE SET UP ANOTHER LOCATION
AND MAKE YOUR MOVE SIGNED INTO
THE LAW CAME AND RATE THEM
AGAIN.
IT WAS A CYCLE.
AND LAST THIS PREVENT FROM
GETTING CAUGHT.
HE ACTUALLY LEARNED SOME
TECHNIQUES THEY SET THE RATE UP
FOR.
>>THEY GOT TO JUMP MAN IS CALL
WOULD COME JUST MET HIS
GOAL WAS THE THE CATCH YOU
DISTILL SITE FOR.
RUN YOU DOWN AWAY FROM HIM
NATURAL INSTINCT IS WHEN YOU
SEE DANGER COMING USED TO RUN
AWAY FROM.
AND THAT’S WHAT THEIR PLAN IS
IF YOU RUN AWAY FROM A
GENTLEMAN WHO GO DOWN 100 YARDS
BEACH AND 15 MEN SCATTERED OUT
LIKE IN HALF MOON.
YOU CALLED THE 100 YARDS YOU
OUT OF BREATH,
SO WHAT I THINK THAT WE LEARNED
GAME WAS TURN BACK AROUND AND
GET AROUND AND GO BACK TO WHERE
JOHN MCCAIN.
WELL OF COURSE, WE SCIENTISTS
LEGAL NOW.
>>AND WAS A SIGNATURE DRINK, A
SODA, ABC STORES
ACROSS VIRGINIA.
HIS GOAL NOW IS TO PRESERVE THE
HISTORY SIGN FROM THE GOOD AND
THE BAD WELL AS FATHER AMOS ADAMU SIGN DURING THAT PRODUCED
500,000 GALLONS AND NOW SAYS THE POPULARITY OF MOONSHINE IS RISING LOWE WANTS TO MAKE
SURE PEOPLE KNOW CHARLOTTE AT
THE VERY SMART TO BILL STILL
SUBS TO MAKE THE JURY SHOWS
HARD WORK
HARD WORKERS CREATING A RICH