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Gerard recounts moonshining in North Carolina's past and present. While illegal distilling still goes on, the state now has thirteen legally approved distilleries. Gerard talks with two distillers--Troy Ball, who owns the distillery Troy & Sons in Asheville, and Scott Maitland, whose TOPO Distillery operates in Chapel Hill.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 2, Jul 2014,
p110-116, 118-119, il, por
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23721
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The origins of NASCAR trace to liquor tax laws and the Prohibition Era, when Western North Carolina moonshiners raced around back roads, escaping the law as they made their deliveries. Smith discusses the history of bootlegging and NASCAR.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 2 Issue 1, January/February 2008,
p82-91, il, por
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33192
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It was a peach of a scrap and old-timers in Western North Carolina still bring it up whenever anybody has anything to say about outstanding personal combats. This article gives an account of one U. S. Marshall’s nearly hour long stand against 13 armed men.
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