The Wake Forest Historical Association will hold its annual membership meeting Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Wake Forest Historical Museum on North Main Street. The business meeting will be brief but the program after it may be lengthy as President Sanford Bailey has posed a number of conditions and questions to be covered.
“Panel presentation will focus on still set up and sites selected; manufacturing process; transportation of raw material into still site; types of material needed at site such as grain, sugar, yeast; the distilling process; the finished product; marketing of finished product; transportation of finished product; ramifications of getting caught with illegal or non-tax-paid product; who were the law enforcement official during this time and how did they go about doing their work of finding and breaking up operating stills; what happened to those who were caught? Why was bootleggining and manufacture so popular during the decade of the 50s? Who were the actual players?”
The panel to discuss all of the above will consist of Bailey, Buck Bailey, Jimmy Powell, Donald Pleasants and Lew Nuckles.
The free meeting and panel discussion are open to everyone. They begin at 3 p.m. and light refreshments will be served but will not include samples of the product discussed.
