
Prohibition's Prince
The Bizarre Life of America's Millionaire Moonshiner
Guy Graybill(Author)
Catamount Press
2nd Edition
Published on 12. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
412 pages
979-8-88819-230-6 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition combines the first edition and Prince and the Paupers into one volume.
Author and historian Guy Graybill presents the entertaining tale of one of America's most prolific moonshiners and bootleggers.
Prince David Farrington plied his trade through the early to mid 20th century. Graybill follows Farrington from his roots in Guilford County, North Carolina to Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, detailing the decades of illicit activity along the way.
Farrington amassed a large fortune.
His exploits remain legendary to this day.
Relive the rollicking life of Prohibition's Prince through numerous legends, testimonials, news accounts, and still locations. This volume includes 44 pages of vintage photographs and is indexed.
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Edition
2nd Combined ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88819-230-6 (9798888192306)
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Guy Graybill, retired teacher and historian, attended rural Pennsylvania schools and graduated from Gettysburg College with a degree in History.Guy Graybill worked in a Pennsylvania state capital mailroom, in a brick plant, in the Geisinger Medical Center (Danville, PA) and in schools in Aguilar, Colorado (one year) and Loganton, Pennsylvania (two years). His career position was three decades in Middleburg, PA as a secondary History teacher. After retiring from Middleburg, he was elected to a four-year term as chairman of the board of commissioners of Snyder County.Guy married his high-school sweetheart, Nancy Yerger. They have now been married for many decades and are the parents of four grown children.Guy Graybill is proud of the support he has received from individuals who wrote the forewords to his books. They include a man who is now Budget Secretary to the governor of Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia opera singer and a former speechwriter to five U.S. presidents.Other than writing, Guy Graybill's hobbies include travel, amateur archaeology, and photography. Guy has traveled in more than 40 of the U.S. states, as well as Japan, Okinawa, Canada, and Guatemala. He conducted one local archaeology project for the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial observance and his photographs have appeared on greetings, postal cards, and more than 100 covers of small magazines.