![]() But he was well known as a distiller around his native Parrottsville. He mostly kept out of trouble after that, though friends say his nickname came from an unfortunate encounter with a balky barroom popcorn machine. ![]() Sutton had brushes with the law, and was first convicted of selling untaxed liquor in the early 1970s. “This is something that legitimately is an expression of the culture of this region,” Mr. The practice goes back to the Scots-Irish, who brought it to the New World, and it wasn’t illegal until after the Civil War, says Dan Pierce, chairman of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. ![]() Sutton learned the family trade from his father. I read this while eating breakfast today, and love the imagery that this story conveys.Ī scrawny, long-bearded mountain man with a foul mouth and a passing acquaintance with copper tubing and kettles, Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton seemed the embodiment of moonshiners of yore.īrought up in rural Cocke County, Tenn., identified as one of four “moonshine capitals of the world” in the corn-whiskey history “Mountain Spirits,” Mr. That is why I bring to your attention this great remembrance of Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton from this weekend’s edition of the Wall Street Journal. ![]() UPDATE WITH “POPCORN” SUTTON VIDEOS…CLICK HERE-watch his old-fashioned memorial service.Īs I have stated before, I love a well written, and memorable obituary. ![]()
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