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moonshine 1. another word for moonlight 2. US and Canadian illegally distilled or smuggled whisky or other spirit How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the first comprehensive history of the hillbilly, Harkins traces this figure back to precursors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: literary sources, such as the stock character of the "rural rube," as well as Simon Suggs, Sut Lovingood, and Southwest humor; legends that grew up around historical figures Daniel Boone and, especially, Davy Crockett; the image of the feuding, moonshining Mountaineer propagated by journalists in the later nineteenth century. DURING MY CHILDHOOD, moonshining was a main source of income for the residents of the hills and hollows of West Virginia and Kentucky. Continually engaged in grinding and boiling cane, David Georgia keeps Becky supplied with syrup and, in "Blood-Burning Moon," works into the night at the center of a group of men whom he regales with "tales about the white folks, about moonshining and cotton picking, and about sweet nigger gals" (29). |
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