West End Women: Liquor, Labor, and Love in Urban Appalachia

Program Type:

Informational, Local History/Genealogy

Age Group:

Adult
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While we may imagine the typical moonshiner as a gangly man in overalls, plenty of women were involved in the business, too!

Mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunties across the rapidly-urbanizing city of Asheville were operating stills and "drink houses" in their own homes. Many of them concentrated in the working-class neighborhood known as the West End, Factory Hill, or Chicken Hill. 

Join BCSC collection manager, Katherine Cutshall, to learn about how working-class women living in the West End neighborhood of Asheville supported their families by participating in the moonshine business.

This event will be held in the Buncombe County Special Collections reading room on the lower level of Pack Memorial Library.

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