I photographed Popcorn over a period of three years and made nearly 1000 images of him. I’ll post a thread one day on him and post images of his whiskey operation. Here’s are two, one with me talking with him shot by my writer and audio man Tom Jestet and one of Popcorn preparing the still for another run. The still was one of 3 1000 gallon stills he had. You can see what a tiny guy he was. Popcorn weighed in at 85 pounds.
4 hours after leaving his still house, one of his helpers set fire to it which led to his arrest that night. His helper was angry with him because he was spending too much time with the woman that became his 12th wife and not spending enough time making whiskey.
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