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    ANSWERING THE CALL

    Aug 12, 2022 5 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW FAULKNER

    Yoknapatawpha County (pronounced just like it’s spelled) is the setting for almost all the books by the great author William Faulkner (no relation).

    Substituting the name Jefferson for the county seat of Oxford, Mississippi, and similar names for almost-recognisable places, the novelist names one real place – Taylor, Mississippi – in his otherwise

    In Go Down, Moses, Lucas Beauchamp hid his moonshine still every dawn in the creek bed not far away. No doubt there were previous distillers in Taylor, but none legal.

    Wonderbird Spirits is the first legal distillery in Yoknapatawpha County – but unlike the county, Wonderbird is real, located fewer than 10 miles south of Faulkner’s Oxford home. The distillery’s co-founder Rob Forster felt drawn to Oxford after his father, an Ole Miss

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