Copperhead Road

Fellow moonshiner Thurmond Brown explained some years back about how terrifying it was to ride with Junior when he was going full song on the highways of North Carolina. “Junior and me was comin’ back through Winston-Salem once at about 3 o’clock in the morning after unloading a load, and hell, he was just drivin’ [...]

Times Gone By

Courtesy of the Library of Congress: a treasure trove of color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s, in an the exhibit America from the Great Depression to World War II, conveniently indexed by subject, geography and creator. There’s all sorts of interesting things to dig up – this shot looks like a still from an [...]