In the final years of his legendary life, Popcorn Sutton put his wife up on a pedestal – and on the catwalk above the 2,500-gallon pots where his moonshine was being distilled. It’s only fitting the ...

It won't be long before famous moonshiner Popcorn Sutton's special recipe will be brewed again in Cocke County. But this time, it will be legal, and with the full support of the county and the state.

Mar. 31—At the end of his life, Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton was revered as a folk hero, a rebel and is still referred to as the "king of moonshine." And even though it has been 12 years since his death, ...

"Popcorn Sutton -- A Hell of Life," a new documentary about moonshiner legend and Maggie Valley native, Popcorn Sutton, will be available on DVD Friday. The movie was shot by Emmy Award-winning and ...

I’ve been to a Haywood County party or two in my day, and I’ve sampled what my hosts proudly put on display as real mountain moonshine: Popcorn’s ‘shine. They would have been referring to home brew ...

PARROTTSVILLE, Tenn. — This is a story about a man named Marvin Sutton and how he proved that the road from criminality to commodity is sometimes shorter than it looks. Until his death in 2009 at the ...

Lewis Redmond was wanted for murder, but he became a folk hero in WNC in the 1870s as a moonshiner fighting the Yankee sympathizing "revenuers." July 1, 1862, was not only the day on which nearly 300 ...

A four-year legal battle over the rights to an autobiography penned by a famed Cocke County moonshiner who killed himself rather than go back to prison has ended with his widow the victor. U.S.

The festival celebrates the life of infamous moonshiner Popcorn Sutton. It combines music and food, but no moonshine. The Memorial Jam moved to Newport last year after being held in Maggie Valley, ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Pam Sutton is the widow of the legendary moonshiner Popcorn Sutton, and she is joining forces with Sevier County native and Ole Smoky Founder, Joe Baker, to bring Popcorn’s ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. His tombstone reads: Popcorn Says F**k You. That’s all the evidence you need to see that the moonshiner Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton didn’t ...

July 1, 1862, was not only the day on which nearly 300 Western North Carolinians died at Malvern Hill. It was also the day of the formation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and the beginning of the ...