Selected Readings

• Carr, Jess.  The Second Oldest Profession; An Informal History of Moonshining in America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
• Doss, Rodger.  Shine.  Roanoke, VA:  Doss & Langston, 1996. 
• Dabney, Joseph Earl.  Mountain Spirits: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey from King James’ Ulster Plantation to America’s Appalachians and the Moonshine Life.  Asheville, NC:  Bright Mountain Books, 1974.
• Dabney, Joseph Earl.  More Mountain Spirits: The Continuing Chronicle of Moonshine Life and Corn Whiskey, Wines, Ciders & Beers in American’s Appalachians.  Fairview, NC:  Bright Mountain Books, 1980.
• Greer, T. K.  The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935.  Rocky Mount, VA:  History House Press, 2002.
• Higgins, Tom and Steve Waid.  Junior Johnson: Brave in Life.  Phoenix, AZ:  David Bull Publishing, 1999.
• Kephart, Horace.  Our Southern Highlanders.  Knoxville, TN:  University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
• Powell, Jack Allen.  A Dying Art II.  Martinsville, IN:  Bookman Publishing and Marketing, 2004.    

Acknowledgements

The Moonshine, Blue Ridge Style exhibition has been made possible through the support of John Redd Smith, Jr., and a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.  Other generous supporters of the exhibition and the Blue Ridge Institute’s research into Blue Ridge moonshine include: 

About Ferrum College and the Blue Ridge Institute & Museum
Founded in 1913, Ferrum College is a four-year, private, co-educational, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church.  Ferrum offers a choice of nationally recognized bachelor’s degree programs at a cost well below the national average for private colleges.  Visit www.ferrum.edu for more information.

A major venue on the Crooked Road Music Trail, Ferrum College’s Blue Ridge Institute & Museum promotes the understanding of regional folkways through the documentation of traditional culture and innovative programming for all ages.  Adding a unique element to Ferrum’s modern academic programs as well as to its historical identity, Institute programs include gallery exhibits, a living history farm museum, an archive, an annual folklife festival, and various outreach programs.  The Institute is Virginia’s State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore.  Visit www.blueridgeinstitute.org for online exhibitions, research, and event information.  

About the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy was established in 1974 to develop and support public programs, education, and research in the humanities and to relate the humanities to public issues.  The VFH is nonprofit and nonpartisan and receives support from private gifts, grants, and contributions, and from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Visit www.virginiafoundation.org for more information.

About John Redd Smith, Jr.
The son of a Martinsville Commonwealth's Attorney who prosecuted bootleggers during the infamous 1935 Moonshine Conspiracy trial, John Redd Smith, Jr., knows well the people, tales, and temptations surrounding Franklin County's most famous beverage. Once joking, "I never knew that liquor came in anything but a Mason jar until I was grown [because bootleggers would pay his father in homemade brandy],” John Redd, as he is known to friends, decided to share his history by underwriting the Moonshine – Blue Ridge Style exhibition.  Moonshine shaped some of John Redd’s earliest experiences, and his generous support will preserve an accurate understanding of the region’s white liquor industry for generations to come. 

©2009 Blue Ridge Institute & Museum of Ferrum College

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