How old is popcorn from moonshiners

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YouTube Instagram Twitter Facebook. Archived News. Written by Becky Johnson. Wednesday, March 18, Related Items. People have been making moonshine almost since the day water started running downhill,…. But I learned enough about him writing this book to be at peace with this. When she grew up, she used her skills as a historian and genealogist to learn the story of his life as others told it. Suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning was suspected. Sheriff's Detective Bryan Murr said Sutton was found in his car by his wife Monday afternoon on his property in the Parrottsville community, about 50 miles east of Knoxville.

He was pronounced dead in the Cocke County Baptist Hospital emergency room shortly before 6 p. Sutton, who authored a book about his life, "Me and My Likker," pleaded guilty in April to illegally producing distilled spirits and being a felon in possession of a handgun.

He was ordered to report to federal prison Friday to serve an month sentence. An undercover operation by the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission busted him last year. Officers searched his home and a storage unit in Maggie Valley, N. Petitions of support for Sutton signed by hundreds of people from North Carolina and Tennessee were presented to the court.

But U. District Judge Ronnie Greer decided he couldn't give probation to a man who had been convicted five times. He said he considered Sutton's age and medical condition and decided on a less-than-maximum sentence. Irwin told Sutton to run nothing but water through it. But with thousands of people, including then-Gov. Don Sundquist, visiting for an annual homecoming event, Sutton decided to cook up some real sour mash and dispense it to the crowd in little paper cups.

He wasn't just a poor old moonshiner trying to make a few dollars. Sutton's last arrest followed a raid in which authorities found nearly 1, gallons of moonshine in Parrottsville and a storage unit in Maggie Valley, N. He'd gotten probation before, but U.

District Judge Ronnie Greer said he couldn't do that again, despite Sutton's age and physical infirmities. His estranged daughter Sky Sutton, 35, of Northampton, Mass. She hadn't seen him since she was 2, though they had talked on the phone. She has no doubt Sutton died on his own terms.

That man went out in a blaze of glory, and flipping his finger as we went," she said.