His thing was- he always tells me about this time in university he wou-- was taking chemistry and it was his last year or-something and he was in charge of his own lab and he had his own like, everything- all the equipment that he wanted and so he decided to make moonshine and so he made it and brought it home for like him and his brothers and-everyone to drink and my mom came over and she poured herself a big glass

So the, the- whatever moonshine they were making is still- very much possibility that it's intact.

Speaker: Yeah, he made ah whatever it was called, moonshine-vodka. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Ah and every so often. He'll be walking around behind the bush and you'll see these big coils of copper wrapped around the tree somewhere. And there these strange kettle looking things and that was them making moonshine. Interviewer: That's incredible. Have you ever had it? Speaker: Ever drank moonshine? No. Interviewer: You haven't? Speaker: No. Interviewer: No? Speaker: No. Yourself? Interviewer: No. Speaker: No. I've made it with- with a- an old Italian friend of mine. But it's not called moonshine it's called grappa.

Which he did, with, ah, like, fifty bottles of moonshine in the back. And no one's ever found it.

...he eventually did wake as the morning came around and was dreadfully- he was dead drunk with bad moonshine, bad booze that somebody had made in one of the stills somewhere I-guess.

Speaker 1: And ah they made moonshine. Interviewer: How l-- why would they do that? Speaker 1: Well there was nothing else? Speaker 2: They didn't have a liquor store here then.

Speaker: Oh yeah there- oh there's- oh yeah, they have- and moonshine, they would make. Interviewer: Ooo! Speaker: They would make moonshine. Goodram is supposed to be known for- the story is in Goodram, if they don't like you, they'll burn your barn down.

Well he- they were with a family by the name of Collins. And my father drank too, moonshine. Because the Italians used to make wine and they knew different- like different areas made didn't things. You knew where to go and get your stuff. And um, anyway, the boy had had his tonsils out but he bled to death and they said it was because of my father giving him moonshine or giving whatever but they brought him the minis-- they brought in the doctor from um Minden in.