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MISSISSIPPI’S “HERITAGE” also Includes “moonshine” whiskey making. Special Agents Rodger L. Shanks and Jimmy F. Smith who Uve In Long Beach have made available photographs showing various stages of the fine and illegal art of fermentation without license. One notation showed the use of 1,680 pounds of sugar and 1100 pounds of rye used in a “batch.” During prohibition times “The Kiln” was infamous for lt’i “white lightenln!”
WHEN IS A BARN NOT A BARN? When it’s a front for a 375 gal. whiskey still. That’s what this barn was.
Photo courtesy of J. F. Smith of Long Beach.
PLASTIC CONTAINERS have all bnt replaced the “Little Brown Jug with the corn cob stopper” familiar to buyers of that good Kiln Corn.
Photo courtesy of J. F. Smith of Long Beach.
COLONIAL SUGAR’S good customers bought literally tons of sugar in the manufacture of “white lightenin."
Photo through courtesy of J. F. Smith, himself a “Revenoor.”
It is said that once during the transporting of illegal liquor over the Cy Cuevas Bridge, which was a wooden structure over Bayou LaTarre, it gave way under the weight of the heavy load, and took a crew of men several hours to unload.