Moonshiner # 7 Leon Sweat Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/10/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

You are searching for my shine and a smiley in the form of an ammo can.

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Leon Sweat,

Sanderson in 1935, when I was a 7th grader at Sanderson school and about 13 years old, I was visiting over at Mr. Lonnie Sweat's house, who was, incidentally, no relation to me.
He was the Constable of Sanderson. I was playing with his two sons, W.C. and Frank, when these two men drove up and asked if Mr. Lonnie Sweat was there.
The boys told them their daddy was out on the farm, so they wanted to know if we knew where the Lee Given's juke was.
I told them, Yeah, I know where it is, so they said, 'Well, get in the car with me and show me.

I didn't know who they were, so we drove out to Johnsville, and parked close to Lee's juke. The two of them got out of the car and came back with a man under arrest and they had a few bottles of moonshine.

They brought me back to Mr. Sweat's house and put me out. A few days after that, one of the men around the Sanderson area got my dad off and said, if you think anything about that son of yours, you'll keep his butt out of revenuer's cars, or something might happen to him.
I don't know who it was to this day, and if dad knew he never told me, but they came up in a very belligerent manner to tell dad that.

Back then, children would be absent from school for a day and if you asked them what happened they'd say they had to look after daddy's still while he went to town for something.
So moonshine was not looked down on as an occupation back then by the people. In fact, some people used to seriously say it was the only way you could make a decent honest living. -- Leon Sweat

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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