When I write about moonshiners, I feel like I’m writing about Elliot Ness and the Untouchables. Here’s a moonshiner article I wrote for The Chambersburg Public Opinion that ran on Monday. I think this is the third story about moonshining I’ve written. I did one a couple of months ago set in Allegany County and a few years ago, I wrote about the death of Frederick County Sheriff’s Deputy in a raid on a still in the Catoctin Mountains.   I also recently was given a copy of an unpublished memoir about life in a coal mining town in the first half of the 20th Century. It has a section in it about Prohibition and moonshining in the mountains. It even has diagrams and recipes for making your own adult beverages. I always thought moonshine applied to all illegal liquor Read more…