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Popcorn Sutton cont.
Shortly after discovering the documentary I posted about the moonshiner Popcorn Sutton I find this in an article of a book review…
“Mr. Watman thinks he has found the real thing when he gets the notorious North Carolina moonshiner Popcorn Sutton to agree to an interview. But then Popcorn backs out, and then revenuers raid his three-still operation, sloppy with hundreds of gallons of mash and jugged ‘shine and a stash of weapons and ammo. Facing 18 months in federal prison, he asphyxiates himself by rigging a pipe from the exhaust of his Ford Fairlane, “his three-jug car, he called it, because he’d traded three jugs of liquor for it.”
This kind of makes me sad. I guess that is still a somewhat romantic ending to a moonshiners life though right? Always running from the law…
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