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The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935 resulted in the indictment of 80 people involved in the illegal production and distribution of moonshine whisky in Virginia. At the time, Franklin County was believed to produce the highest volume of illegal liquor in the U.S., colloquially referred to as "the moonshine capital of the world."
ISBN. 1-4165-6139-0 (hardback edition) The Wettest County in the World is a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant, an American writer who features his grandfather Jack and grand-uncles Forrest and Howard as the main characters in the novel. The book tells of the trio during the Depression and Prohibition in rural Virginia, who made a living ...
Lawless. (film) Lawless is a 2012 American crime drama film directed by John Hillcoat. The screenplay, by Australian singer-screenwriter Nick Cave, is based on Matt Bondurant 's historical novel The Wettest County in the World (2008). The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, and Guy ...
McCoy’s story captures the turbulent years of Prohibition and the history of moonshiners active in Washington County during that time. McCoy was born Jan. 7, 1870, to blacksmith Elbert McCoy and ...
Franklin County, Virginia. / 36.99°N 79.88°W / 36.99; -79.88. Franklin County is a county located in the Blue Ridge foothills of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,477. [ 1] Its county seat is Rocky Mount. [ 2] Franklin County is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located ...
First West Virginia Moonshine Festival. Saturday, July 6 - 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Barn of Harpers Ferry. ... Franklin County Fair. Sunday, July 7, through Saturday, July 13 - 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
List of. Moonshiners. episodes. Moonshiners is an American docudrama television series on the Discovery Channel that dramatizes the life of people who produce (illegal) moonshine in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The series dramatizes their liquor production efforts, law-evading ...
In the John Wayne films True Grit (1969) and Rooster Cogburn (1975), Wayne's character Ruben J. "Rooster" Cogburn is a heavy-drinking United States Marshal who refers to his favorite moonshine as "genuine, double-rectified busthead ". However, he never buys his moonshine, instead confiscating it from other drunks for his own consumption.