“Just Passing Time Together” was recently released. It is a grand collection of stories by husband & wife storytellers, J.A. & Azalea Bolton. J.A. & Azalea’s new book can be found on Amazon
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Media story from the Laurinburg Exchange: The storytelling husband and wife, J.A. and Azalea Bolton, of Rockingham will release a collection of short stories at a reading Thursday at St. Andrews University. The book titled “Just Passing Time Together” was produced through the St. Andrews University Press and is available on Amazon in E-book and print book...
Read MoreMoonshiners and Revenuers
ABC officers or old-time revenuers regard the secret making and selling of illegal whiskey not as a criminal offense, but as a tax violation. These men and occasional women, put in 60 to 80 hours a week at work and almost never take a vacation. Their primary job is to stop the making or selling of non-tax paid liquor and more recently the growing and...
Read MoreFast Cars and White Liquor
Last week we talked about the history of making moonshine and the first process of making the brew, which is fermentation in the mash barrel. As the fermentation is completed, a foam called the “cap” forms. When the cap gradually disappears, the remaining sour mixture called the “beer” has about 6 to 12% alcohol content. This concoction is quite different...
Read MoreThe Devil’s Brew
People have been drinking or using some type of alcohol product just about since the beginning of mankind. Why, some old timers say it wasn’t the apple that put Adam and Eve out of the garden, it was the apple brandy. Water always has been the preferred drink but it didn’t take many generations of our ancestors to come up with recipes for making beer,...
Read MoreA Path Well-Trodden
In nineteen 1953 I was five years old, living with my parents on Hwy. 74 West of Rockingham N.C. That same year, my Granddaddy deeded an acre of land to my parents to build their first house. At the time the land was being used for pasture land that joined my grandparent’s home off Hwy. 220 North of Rockingham. Dad and Mom contracted a local builder to...
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