Category Archives: Moonshine
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Rocky Mount goes Hollywood
Posted on August 26, 2012 by Shellie Leete in Bondurant brothers, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, forrest bondurant, franklin couny va, franklin va, LAWLESS, lawless the movie, Moonshine, Rocky Mount, The Wettest County in the World, tom hardyFranklin County, self-appointed “Moonshine Capital of the World,” will have its story brought to the silver screen in the upcoming movie “Lawless,” which is scheduled to open in theaters this week. Based on the true story of the Bondurant Brothers here in Franklin County, Virginia Here is the Franklin County pick up truck parked in [...]
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STILL the Wettest County in the World
Posted on April 6, 2012 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Mountains, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Franklin County VA, Moonshine, Wettest County in the WorldABC air and ground operation 18 stills were in Franklin CountyArticle today in the Franklin News Post April 6, 2012 By K.A. WAGONER – Staff Writer Back view of a blockader in Franklin County VA Eighteen of the 25 moonshine stills destroyed last month by agents with the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) were [...]
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Whet you whistle from an old fruit jar
Posted on February 2, 2012 by Shellie Leete in Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Franklin County, Moonshine, moonshine capital of the world, Rocky Mount, The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music TrailThe Dixie Bee Liners “Down On The Crooked Road” A fiddle and a bow and an old banjo what we call mountain soul…come and be a part of it down on the crooked road… The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail starts here, just one block behind The Claiborne House Bed and Breakfast in Rocky Mount, [...]
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Hot Off The Press: Spirits of Just Men
Posted on March 23, 2011 by Shellie Leete in Bike Franklin County VA, charles d thompson jr, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Moonshine, spirits of just men, The Wettest County in the WorldSpirits of Just Men Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World by CHARLES D. THOMPSON JR. Just released! Spirits of Just Men tells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place that many still refer to as the “moonshine capital [...]
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The Wettest County in the World
Posted on December 9, 2008 by Shellie Leete in Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia, Franklin County VA, Jack Bondurant, Matt Bondurant, Moonshine, Sherwood Anderson, The Wettest County in the World, White lightningThe Wettest County in the World – A Novel Based on a True Story by Matt Bondurant. Pub Oct 2008 Hot off the presses! This is a gripping read for those interested in the illicit likker of the early years in the backroads and hills of Franklin County Virginia. Known as the “Moonshine Capitol of [...]
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Floyd Country Store Friday Night Jamboree and The Rocky Mount Depot
Posted on July 17, 2007 by Shellie Leete in Banjo, Bluegrass, Claiborne House bed and breakfast, Crooked Road Music, Crooked Road Music Trail, Floyd Country Store, Franklin County, Moonshine, Rocky Mount, The DepotMark Twain said, A Gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo, and doesn’t. Here in these hills there is a blend of special music that folks come from near and far to hear. I was told by music historian Joe Wilson that most of America’s music originated right here in these mountains. [...]
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