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Oct 3, 2008

Running the blockade, Franklin County style - roanoke.com

First of all, they didn't call themselves "moonshiners." "Blockaders" preferred a term that harked back to the dangerous and adventurous activities practiced by their Colonial and Civil War ancestors who ran ...

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