Waters of Life from the Conecuh Ridge
The Clyde May Story
Published on 1. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-60306-012-7 (ISBN)
Description
Clyde May was the patriarch of a family from rural Bullock County, Alabama. He was a devoted father, a war veteran, and a churchgoer. He was also a moonshiner. This colorful memoir based on oral history interviews with May's son, Kenny, explores May's life and his passion for making good whiskey despite the risk of going to jail. Now the family tradition is taking a new twist, as Kenny and his siblings have established Alabama's first legal distillery to bottle and sell a distinctive whiskey based on the late Clyde May's recipe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Athens
United States
Publishing group
University of Georgia Press
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-60306-012-7 (9781603060127)
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WADE HALL (1934-2015) taught at colleges and universities in Florida and Kentucky, and was the author of many books, monographs, poems, and plays about the South and its people. He held degrees from Troy State University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Illinois. A native of rural Alabama, he lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1962 to 2006, when he moved back to his family homeplace at Hall's Crossroads in Bullock County, Alabama, south of Union Springs, Alabama.