Once upon a time,moonshine was big business,and the American South played out a daily game of cat and mouse as fast cars raced for the border. Jim Leggett goes in search of an American institution
The Dukes of Hazzard TV series may be relegated to reruns, but a new ‘Dukes’ movie introduced a fresh generation of fans to moonshine, rustic humour and gleeful car chases. In search of former moonshiners whose real-life adventures inspired ‘Hazzard’ story lines, I headed for the Cherokee foothills ...
Whisky Production
from Issue 52 published on 30/11/2005
Leon Schoyan’s whisky find was every diver’s dream. Jim Leggett reports on how Prohibition era Scotch found its way back home
Dazzling sun shafts pierced the gloom where, 20 feet below the surface of the Detroit River, diver Leon Sehoyan groped his way towards a pile of grimy gunwales. Pursuing his summer weekend hobby of searching out old bottles he swam toward the wreck.
“I’d found hundreds of bottles in the river over...
Whisky History
from Issue 50 published on 09/09/2005
