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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Spirits of just men
    sub title: mountaineers, liquor bosses, and lawmen in the moonshine capital of the world
  name:
    name part: Thompson, Charles D., (Charles Dillard)
    name part: Jr
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxix, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Following the end of Prohibition in 1933, demand for moonshine remained high due to taxes imposed on large liquor producers. Seeking to answer this demand were the distillers of Appalachia who, having established illegal networks of moonshine distribution under Prohibition, continued their activities and effectively skirted the federal liquor tax scheme. Spirits of Just Men chronicles the Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935, held in Franklin County, Virginia, a place that many still refer to as the "Moonshine Capital of the World." While the trial itself made national news, Thompson uses the event as a stepping-off point to explore Blue Ridge Mountain culture, economy and political engagement in the 1930 illustrating how participation in the moonshine trade was a rational and savvy choice for farmers and community members struggling to maintain their way of life amidst the pressures of the Great Depression and pull of the timber and coal-mining industries in Virginia. Through Thompson's prose, local characters come alive as he pays particular attention to the stories of a key witness for the defense, Miss Ora Harrison, an Episcopalian missionary to the region and Elder Goode Hash, itinerant Primitive Baptist preacher and juror in a related murder trial. Thompson explores how local religious belief both clashed with and condoned the moonshine trade and how stills and the trade enabled a distinctive cultural formation in the region that goes far beyond the hillbilly stereotype alive today. Not only is his work is based on extensive oral histories and local archival material, but Thompson himself is from the area and his grandparents were involved in not only the moonshine trade but the trial as well.
  note: Charles D. Thompson Jr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-va
  subject:
    geographic: Franklin County (Va.)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Distilling, Illicit
    geographic: Virginia
    geographic: Franklin County
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lee, Charles Carter
      name part: -1958
    genre: Trials, litigation, etc
  subject:
    topic: Mountain life
    geographic: Virginia
    geographic: Franklin County
  subject:
    topic: Mountain people
    geographic: Virginia
    geographic: Franklin County
  subject:
    geographic: Franklin County (Va.)
    topic: Religious life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Franklin County (Va.)
    topic: Social life and customs
  classification: F232.F7 T494 2011
  classification: 975.5/68
  identifier: 9780252035128 (hardback)
  identifier: 0252035127 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780252078088 (paper)
  identifier: 025207808X (paper)
  identifier: 2011006822
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110222
    record change date: 20151202122609.0
    record identifier: in00002696512