[goat granny]

He also had a recipe for whiskey cherries that all my son's love and have the recipe for ..it starts with X amount of gin, X amount of a certain whiskey, one lug of cherries and God knows what else and you let it sit for X amount of weeks until there is no liquid left and each cherry is about equivalent to a shot. There is also some rule that on certain days you have to give the jug 3 shakes...those old guys knew things that are a lost art to modern man. He was friends with the sheriff of Sugar Island and they would go spend a week at the cabin and make white lighting (?) When done they hooked the container to the back of the sheriff's boat and spend 30 minutes on the St Mary river (a choppy old river between upper Michigan and Canada) to age the stuff... I just wish I had recorded all the stories he use to tell.

[PalmettoMason]

I just wish I had recorded all the stories he use to tell.

Several years ago, before they passed on, we sat my grandparents down in front of a video camera to tell their life stories. They farmed in South Dakota their entire lives. The stories are amazing.

I recommend that anyone who still has a relative who grew up back in the "old days", get their story on tape, DVD, or whatever... just get it. You will treasure the stories now, but you will treasure it even more when they are gone.