#62 Mountain Girls, Moonshine Shootout, and The Metropolitan Holiness Church. 1911

About this episode

This episode explores the connections between an immigrant girl named Olga, Effie Waller Smith, and a moonshine shootout in Kentucky.

"Holy Jumpers", an Immigrant girl named Olga, and a shootout between a "revenue posse" and a moonshining family in the hills of Kentucky, all of which have a connection to Effie Waller Smith, the teacher and poet from our last episode. Sally's favorite Diary was written by Olga, and in this episode we explore the connective threads from Effie to Olga in the Metropolitan Holiness Church and then Effie's connection to the shootout. You will hear a "colorfully" written newspaper article re...

People in this episode

Hosts: Sally Ivey, Jeff Richards

Topics covered

• moonshine
• immigration
• Kentucky history
• poetry
• church history

Keywords

• moonshine
• Olga
• Effie Waller Smith
• Kentucky
• Metropolitan Holiness Church
• shootout
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Metropolitan Holiness Church

Places: Kentucky

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