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Title	Moonshiners, Shelburn, Indiana
Alternative Title	Moonshiners; Bootleggers; Prohibition
Genre	Legends -- People -- Eccentric
Description	Sara Russell's transcribed interview of Jim Thompson about moonshiners in Shelburn, Indiana. According to Thompson, there was an area known as Camp Thirsty where people went to drink during prohibition. One election a judge and a church were running on the same ticket and said they would shut down all bootlegging in the area. After they won the election, they went and bought everyone drinks at Camp Thirsty.
Informant	Thompson, Jim
Collector	Russell, Sara
Date of Original	1992-04-20
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Sullivan County -- Shelburn -- 1992
Subject	Legends People Prohibition Alcohol
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-10
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-Moonshiners019

Moonshiners, Shelburn, Indiana

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