MoonShiner #2 Skeeter Gainey Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/13/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

You are searching for a well hidden ammo can along with my Shine.

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Marion Ernest ( Skeeter ) Gainey was one of 14 children born to William Clayton and Matilda Howard Gainey in the Georgia Bend on March 30, 1941. The old, rustic, three- room clapboard home with its circular drive is where he grew up with his 12 living brothers and sisters.

It was a great experience for us to get old enough to go to the still. I felt all grown up when I saw it because it was a way of life. It meant survival, if the tobacco crop didn't come through, because what little we made from it provided clothing and other essentials our family needed.

When we got big enough to help with the whiskey, we thought we were real grown up, and we had more responsibility. I knew it was against the law, but I didn't look at it as a shameful thing, It was just a way to have enough money for our family to exist. We really had it hard even with the extra we made from the moonshine.

By the age of 13, I had been arrested for making illegal moonshine. The year was 1954. "I was with my father in this little old still behind the farm there. We'd had it for years, you know, so somebody turned us in, most likely. It was the Federal guys Mueller and Maine, I remember. They called one of 'em 'Yank' because he used to play baseball with the New York Yankees. They caught us, just me and dad. We both got probation. They tore our still up. They beat the oak barrels in and we were not able to patch 'em back, so we had to start over.

The moonshine profession was hard work, and, unlike what some people think now or thought then, while the money might have been good, it didn't come easy. It was a way to survive during a time jobs for the uneducated and untrained were scarce.

Eventually the stills were blown up by revenuers. After that I put five stills up. My goal was seven. I hired a couple of guys, but was still hauling most of it. I was into moonshining big time now. I hauled the moonshine from my stills and for others as well. I had so much money at one time I had trouble finding a place to put it. I had more than $80,000 stashed away in a suit box I kept in my car.

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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