Ghosts of the Carolinas

Politics & Social Sciences

Bruce Roberts

Social Sciences

Bright Mountain Books

Mountain Spirits is a scholarly yet entertaining look into this staple of Southern Appalachian history. The folklore of moonshine whiskey is full of fact and fiction, but the real characters tell stories even more humorous and exciting. Dabney's interviews with actual moonshiners and his documented history allow one to take a trip through the mountains - and through history - to discover both the origins and development of the art of making whiskey. With a complete glossary, photographs, illustrations, and interviews, Mountain Spirits offers a most complete exploration of this craft, from distilling for personal use to the moonshining gangs that emerged during Prohibition.

Mountain Spirits: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey from King James' Ulster Plantation to America's Appalachians and the Moonshine Life

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Dabney, Joseph Earl

Beverages & Wine

More Mountain Spirits is an expansion of its predecessor Mountain Spirits, but it's also a treasure all its own. Recipes for all kinds of spirits are included: brandy, wine, and beer made from every fruit or vegetable you can think of, ranging from blackberry brandy to tomato beer to rhubarb wine. Of course, recipes for corn whiskey and real apple cider are included, too. You'll also meet more colorful characters - those who were making, transporting, and selling spirits, as well as those who were tracking and arresting them. There's also a 36-page, step-by-step illustrated guide to building a copper pot still!

More Mountain Spirits: The Continuing Chronicle of Moonshine Life and Corn Whiskey, Wines, Ciders & Beers in America's Appalachians

Here is storytelling at its finest by two well-known North Carolina boys who are no longer with us Bob Terrell, author, columnist, humorist, and reporter who usually wrote his stories down, and Marcellus Buchanan, who more often told his verbally. 
 These are tales about people at their best and worst - both simple folk and people in high places. Mostly, the stories concern men and women in the public eye because they worked in our legal, judicial, or political systems. Disorder in the Court! contains dozens of hilarious stories from courthouses, lawyers' offices, and police stations all across the great state of North Carolina.

Disorder in the Court

Humor & Entertainment

Terrell, Bob

Buchanan, Marcellus

Humor

Disorder in the court!

Rules & Procedures

Let's Make Country Wine

Fisher, Sylvia

Fisher, Dan

An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurrences in the Old North State

Roberts, Nancy

Philosophy

Humorous book of anecdotes about the Asheville area of Western North Carolina.

Keep 'Em Laughing With Bob Terrell

Tells the stories of hauntings, the little people, a ghostly horseman, a demon, a plane crash, and eerie apparitions.

This Haunted Land: Where Ghosts Still Roam

Roberts, Bruce

Book by Moore, William G., Cable, Dianne

Two on the Square

Literature & Fiction

Moore, William G.

Cable, Dianne

Humor & Satire

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