In the final years of his legendary life, Popcorn Sutton put his wife up on a pedestal – and on the catwalk above the 2,500-gallon pots where his moonshine was being distilled. It’s only fitting the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lewis Redmond was wanted for murder, but he became a folk hero in WNC in the 1870s as a moonshiner fighting the Yankee ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 31—At the end of his life, Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton was revered as a folk hero, a rebel and is still referred to as the "king ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It's been more than a decade since one famous moonshiner distilled his bootleg spirits in Cocke County, Tennessee. But the documentary filmmaker who first introduced Popcorn Sutton ...

Moonshine legend Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton was found dead Monday in Cocke County, Tenn. An autopsy is expected to be performed today, and authorities are investigating the possibility of suicide. The ...

COCKE COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) - The son of moonshiner Popcorn Sutton has died in a motorcycle crash in Cocke County, a fellow moonshiner confirmed in a post on Facebook. According to a preliminary report ...

PARROTTSVILLE, Tenn — Moonshine and Cocke County go hand in hand. But while much of the making of the famous liquor has been kept in the shadows, nowadays, moonshine is fully in the spotlight. And ...

MAGGIE VALLEY, N.C. (WLOS) — The late Popcorn Sutton left behind tall tales of moonshine in the western North Carolina mountains. Now, another story is brewing, one involving a family relative and the ...

Filmmaker Hutcheson brings the subject of his documentary The Last One to the page in this touching tribute to Popcorn Sutton, “an archetypal mountain moonshiner.” Mixing memories, research, ...

July 1, 1862, was not only the day on which nearly 300 Western North Carolinians died at Malvern Hill. It was also the day of the formation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and the beginning of the ...