This fella’s name was Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton. He was Tennessee Moonshiner and he was pretty well known. I was researching moonshining and moonshine history yesterday and he came up as the premier example (I was hoping for a KY shiner, but he doesn’t dissapoint). There is a documentary that looks good and tons of articles, blogs and opinions on him out there. It turns out he’d been convicted recently and was supposed to go to prison for 18 months but he was sick and didn’t want to die in jail so he killed himself in March.
Have a look at that lush Appalachian landscape:
a simple popcorn machine
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