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Polly Stewart: Why I Had to Write About Modern-Day Moonshiners

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I was offered moonshine for the first time in my freshman year of college. I went to a small school in southwest Virginia, not far from Franklin County, popularly known as the Moonshine Capital of the World. A friend of mine was seeing a boy from Franklin County, and one night he brought us moonshine in a Gatorade bottle. Someone mixed it into screwdrivers and we drank it on the hill behind the tennis courts. I never saw that guy again, but the …
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CrimeReads broke the news in on Tuesday, July 15, 2025.
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