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« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2009, 01:15:59 AM »
I've never seen a bear in Bankhead but members of my family have in years gone by.  Ancestors on my side and my wife's side of the family who lived the Bankhead were involved in making sure the people of Northern Alabama had good drinking whiskey, used for medicinal purposes only of course Wink, from the early 1920's through the mid 1960's.

Several of them have told me of bears that would visit their places of industry located deep within the hollows of the forest.  Unlike that "corn" likker they made / make in Tennessee, Alabama whiskey, or at least my families recipe, used 100% sugar.  The bears loved to lick and eat the sacks after they were emptied and didn't mind sampling the brew if left unguarded.

It's my families opinion that  the decline of whiskey making had a diasasterous effect on the bear population in the Bankhead. :'(
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« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2009, 10:38:16 AM »
Quote from: Uncle Wayne on October 12, 2009, 01:15:59 AM
It's my families opinion that  the decline of whiskey making had a diasasterous effect on the bear population in the Bankhead. :'(

I don't think I would hang around an area where I couldn't have at least occasional access to whiskey either! Uhhh strictly for medicinal purposes of course.
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