Authorities learn methods of moonshine in Georgia

 
By Walter Putnam
Published: August 30, 2008

TIGER, Ga. (AP) - Making moonshine is a vanishing craft in the backwoods and mountain hollows of north Georgia , but it's a skill that hasn't completely dried up. Authorities have created a "moonshine school" in the heart of what once was a flourishing trade — where bootleggers and "revenooers" sometimes shot it out with deadly results. More than 20 officers from as far as Kansas spent four days this week at the si...

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