“Copper coil”

In 1971, Corn and Wendall “Sonny” Rawls, Jr. were given an assignment by John Seigenthaler, the editor of The Tennessean, to visit moonshine stills and do a story on the illegal whiskey making industry in Appalachia. Moonshine, also called white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, “Tennessee white whiskey” and many other names, is an illegally produced distilled beverage. Corn writes, “We finally found a man who would let us take pictures of the actual process. We met the man who was to make the whiskey in back of a ramshackle house after changing cars twice to avoid being followed by the law.” In this picture, the two men carefully assemble parts of the still in working order. Vapor from the mash is captured in the coil in the distillation process.