Interview with Ann Fife and Scott Fife, July 17, 2016
Project: Kentucky Springs: Narratives on Localized Water Knowledge, Community and Stewardship Oral History Project
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Ann and Scott Fife discuss how the frequent use of springs for distilling moonshine made them a site for confrontations with ?revenuers,? U. S. Treasury Department agents who were tasked with enforcing the law against bootlegging. They shared their research about an ancestor who was killed during an 1879 shootout at a spring in the neighboring community of Bewleytown. Ann also talked about water witching and shared family stories about the use of springs and wells. ?Interview Accession
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Fife, Ann Interview by Kay Westhues. 17 Jul. 2016. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Fife, A. (2016, July 17). Interview by K. Westhues. Kentucky Springs: Narratives on Localized Water Knowledge, Community and Stewardship Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Fife, Ann, interview by Kay Westhues. July 17, 2016, Kentucky Springs: Narratives on Localized Water Knowledge, Community and Stewardship Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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