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LOGGER'S SHEET

LOGGER: Becky Gilmore / Greg Wood
REEL NUMBER: 4A/4B      
STAGE: Tenn. Narrative
DATE: 7/5/86     
PRESENTOR: Roby Cogswell
GROUP NAME: Moonshine
REGION/STYLE: Tennessee
PERFORMER(S)   INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION 
Ray Hicks

CONTENTS
1. Intro. of Ray.
2. Ray - requirements to build still - "no lazy man's job"
3. ingredients - corn meal, sugar, rye malt, water.
4. let it ferment then put it in the still which separates alcohol
5. use of charcoal to clean water
6. marketing of whiskey to coal miners and whiskey running to other states
7. Bootlegger - whiskey cut to 90 proof by distiller, but bootlegger "watered it" down. 
8. 180 proof comes out of the still:
9. moonshine - in the past, it was made to feed families 
10. Pricing - gallon formerly for $2.25; now, $25.00 
11. Characters.
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