#Popcorn sutton me and my likker pdf series#

Instead, analogies to other World War contexts on Tutuila and characteristics of the construction, including the lack of a coil in the last metal container and multiple pipes fanning out from the structure, supported the null hypothesis that Feature 008 was a pot boiler, a vestige of boiler technology that was replaced by condensing boilers, utilized in modern maritime and domestic constructions. However, after further research, the traits of Feature 008 conflicted with the hypothesis of an alcohol still. government for wartime needs such as the production of high-grade alcohol for torpedo fuel and penicillin. Also, a still from this era would be a unique historic structure in the Pacific showing that local military units made whiskey or brandy despite that distilleries were repurposed by the U.S. An alcohol still from World War II would be of interest because the War was instrumental in removing prohibitions against alcohol consumption in the United States. Feature 008 seemed to emulate the characteristics of an alcohol still, a device used to manufacture spirits. These metal containers ended with a pipe that angled downward and protruded from the structure.

#Popcorn sutton me and my likker pdf series#

The concrete structure of several square meters comprised a series of tubular, metal containers that were connected by pipes. 2010), an area comprising 2 acres (0.8093 hectares). This research directly contributes to literatures in Appalachian studies, authenticity and place-making geographies.Īrchaeologist Joel Klenck conducted a hypothesis testing project on Feature 008 at Site AS-25-89A, from the Fagatogo / Utulei Ridge Survey Project, first documented by Kennedy (et al. Using broadly conceived qualitative methodologies the results are illustrated through a case study of three speci c moonshine distilleries the region: Tennessee Hills Distillery (Jonesborough, TN), Sugarlands Distilling Company and Doc Col- lier Moonshine (Gatlinburg, TN). Speci cally, this paper asks: How is place being rep- resented, sold and (re)made through the prolifera- tion of moonshine in East Tennessee? I address this question through concepts of authenticity and place- making as understood in the food/drink and tour- ism literatures.

The rise of legal moonshine is connected to broader economic changes and has already had a signi cant impact on the cultural landscape and the selling and remak- ing of place, in both East Tennessee and Appalachia.

Popcorn Sutton is quite living legend in the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina because of his centuries old trade.Moonshine has undergone a resurgence in recent years with the passage of the 2009 liquor laws in Tennessee, allowing for 41 counties to open and op- erate commercial moonshine distilleries. Popcorn is an authentic moonshine distiller and builder of the still on which to run the brew. He shows a unique sense of character and value system much as our mountain forefathers must have held with which they survived and reared their families. His life has been filled with disappointments and sadness as well as quality times when he grew up on Hemphill, a mountainous community in Haywood County, North Carolina adjacent to Great Smoky National Park. He learned his trade early and chose to drop out of school, drive fast, and chase women.

When Popcorn realized that few people were willing to put in the hard work necessary to build a good 'pot' or to make good liquor, he wanted to pass on his experinces with the trade. His flow of language is sometimes colorful and obscene it is the way he expresses himself. Most of the time I made likker by myself, but at another time on Snowbird Mountain., me and another feller was making likker together. We had up two barrels each 1/2 corn, 1/2 rye. The morning it got ready to run, we went in, pulled the cover back off the barrels. My two barrels looked damn good, but the other fellers didn't. Because a damn big possum had fell in one of his barrels and drowned and swelled up fit to bust.