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MOUNTAIN SPIRITS: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey from King James' Ulster Plantation to America 's Appalachians and the Moonshine Life by JOSEPH EARL DABNEY 242 pages. Scribners...
...Whiskey and freedom gang the-gither," declared Robert Burns-a poet and drinking man who turned out many a verse against Scotland's "Act of Excyse." Usquebaugh distillers in Scotland and Ulster generally felt the way Burns did. In the early 1700s most of them migrated to the American colonies, bringing their whisky-making tools and techniques with them. By 1750, moonshine was a necessity of life on the frontier, and brewing corn whisky was a major industry. From fusty books and firsthand interviews with oldtimers, with many facts and much affection, Joseph Dabney has put together a splendid...
...newspaper to show their detachment from city life, but their modern morals have penetrated too deeply to be dismissed by such a ritual. The forest, reduced to a dizzying madness in Ray's shots from a car window, is polluted by both profane and commercialized love, burnt out by whiskey and corruption...
...script is weakest by far in its characterization of Blue Haven, the racketeer who backs the Parkers' whiskey-making project. A one-time killer, he poses a direct threat to the family, for their business arrangement makes him their master. Blue should be detached, evil, and frightening, but his threats are simply deranged and anti-social. David Wilkins's awkward handling of his cane and sunglasses, ostensibly affected to make him cool and scary, only compounds the problem...
...script's inadequacies don't detract much from Ceremonies's poignancy. Russell's elder son challenges Adele, who disapproves of the illicit whiskey business...