Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, world's greatest and most incorrigible moonshiner, is dead.
He committed suicide to avoid incarceration in a south Georgia federal prison, after his fifth conviction on moonshining charges.
I don't know much about him, but apparently his antics were legend:
John Rice Irwin, founder of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn., recalled that Sutton made a still for the museum in the 1990s.
Irwin told Sutton to run nothing but water through it. But with thousands of people, including then-Gov. Don Sundquist, visiting for an annual homecoming event, Sutton decided to cook up some real sour mash and dispense it to the crowd in little paper cups.
"Popcorn is getting everybody drunk," the governor's Highway Patrol escorts complained and when Irwin told him to stop, Sutton packed up and left, Irwin recalled.
But he did take the time to say goodbye:
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