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Default Just for Fun: Blue Laws (Piggybacking. Blame it on the TJ's thread :))

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:51:20 -0400, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> wrote:

> And yes, county
> laws did play in, as I remember no stores in the two strip malls in the
> county at that time (they now have a few more) could open before noon. That
> was to 'assure' you went to church.
>
> That didn't stop the good ol' boys from makin' home brew tho. I remember
> one 'bust'....someone, we *think* he might have been the sexton of the
> church, installed a still in the crawl space under the church, tapping into
> the electric to run it. People knew it was there and looked the other way,
> I think it was, since the church was a 'family' deal, one relative getting
> upset with the other and turning him in. Never made the papers *where* the
> still was found, just that one was.
> -ginny


Aren't stills stinky? I'm surprised everyone couldn't smell the
evidence.

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