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Pot Liquor A new book published by Westville Village replays the funny, interesting, and dramatic memories of the people of Stewart County. The collection is called, Pot Liquor: Tales and Recollections told by the People of Stewart County, Georgia. Fred C. Fussell, a folklorist who was on Westville's staff 1969 to 1976, edited the book. The 162 stories included in the book were collected by a local group of volunteers in the last several years of the twentieth century. Anyone with memories of the county and a willingness to talk into a tape recorder was invited to sit for a couple of hours and talk. Others wrote out their stories for the project. Most of the stories date from the 1920s '30s, and '40s, but material from a far back as ante-bellum times and as recently as the 1990s included. Early readers of the 165-page book report that they enjoyed the flow of the stories so much that they finished reading it in one or two sittings. The Pot Liquor project began in 1994, when Sue M. Moye of Lumpkin organized a group of about ten volunteers, who agreed to do interviews around the county. The group was called, "the Grassroots Oral History Project". So much material was collected that most could not get in the book and is available for another book in the future. More material is sought as well. Contact Westville with names of people who should be interviewed. Pot Liquor was supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly. It was published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission. Pot Liquor is available for $19.25 at Westville and bookstores. It can be purchased through the mail for $22. Contact Westville. See Our a Special Book Deal at the Museum Shop
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