And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I have aring made by my uncle tom who served many years in prison for making likker.he used a spoon while he set in his cell.he was put in the kitchen in Atlanta penitentery and started making likker from potato peelings and was caught again and sentenced to a few more years this was in the 1920s your friend truckwilkins
During the depression one of my grandfathers decide to make a little money moonshining. He had to quit when a couple of competitors took him for a ride in their car, and explained to him up close what would happen if he didn't. He quickly decided mill work was a lot safer.
Good man, truck! My grandmother had a picture of her uncle and family in front of a stately home all dressed to the nines in white looking very well to do. When I asked what he did, she replied that he was a bootlegger. :) Still have that picture prominently displayed.
My grandfather was a big boozer and gambler. Once he was drinking and playing cards with his cronies when the subject of the election for the Raleigh Police Chief came up. Somehow, my grandfather took a bet that he could win it, which he did. However, he resigned after only 18 months, because he said he couldn't keep arresting his best friends, the bootleggers! This was in 1917. http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=837&highlight=koonce
Very cool I need a skill like that!
ReplyDeleteI have aring made by my uncle tom who served many years in prison for making likker.he used a spoon while he set in his cell.he was put in the kitchen in Atlanta penitentery and started making likker from potato peelings and was caught again and sentenced to a few more years this was in the 1920s your friend truckwilkins
ReplyDeleteDuring the depression one of my grandfathers decide to make a little money moonshining. He had to quit when a couple of competitors took him for a ride in their car, and explained to him up close what would happen if he didn't. He quickly decided mill work was a lot safer.
DeleteGood man, truck! My grandmother had a picture of her uncle and family in front of a stately home all dressed to the nines in white looking very well to do. When I asked what he did, she replied that he was a bootlegger. :) Still have that picture prominently displayed.
DeleteMy grandfather was a big boozer and gambler. Once he was drinking and playing cards with his cronies when the subject of the election for the Raleigh Police Chief came up. Somehow, my grandfather took a bet that he could win it, which he did. However, he resigned after only 18 months, because he said he couldn't keep arresting his best friends, the bootleggers! This was in 1917.
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You can make such cool things with really a workshop. In fact, there is no real reason to leave the man cave except to eat and buy more tools.
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