Still Is Last Original in Georgia

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WILLACOOCHEE, Ga. - The dome-shaped copper still nestled in the pines on the outskirts of town was modeled after a liquor still.

But the liquid that gushed from Willacoochee's still wasn't 100- proof white lighting. Instead, it was the rural cure-all turpentine and rosin, the sticky stuff that gives baseball players a better grip and provides the friction that makes violin strings sing.

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Still Is Last Original in Georgia

The McCranie Brothers' still commemorates a period in the South's naval stores industry when workers went into the forests to attach cups on ...

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