The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant

Author:Matt Bondurant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

AT THE END of October 1934, Anderson returned to Marion for the winter to survey the work on his house. While Ripshin was being built Anderson mostly stood in the freshly cleared yard smoking and watching the men work, nailing posts, planing beams, cutting local stone. It was a stone house, and nothing of its kind had been built in the area around Marion before. But the man he hired to supervise the building, the robust old mountain man named Ball, assured him they could do it and it appeared they could as the house was nearly finished. He spent a quiet holiday at Ripshin with Eleanor and her family.

In the early spring he found himself back in Franklin County, at the boardinghouse. The notice of indictment was due to be posted shortly, and word was that Willie Carter Sharpe was in custody and would testify.

The editors at Liberty sent telegrams asking about his progress. He left them unanswered, folded into a pocket of his coat. Let them deal with what they get, Anderson thought. I won’t be hostage to this thing. I will go down there and see this damn woman and write this thing up and be done with it.

Willie Carter Sharpe, the only man or woman alive who could hold a Ford wide open down Grassy Hill—the famous mountain pass north of Rocky Mount into the Burnt Chimney section of Franklin County and on into Roanoke. The Bootleg Highway, some called it, though only up north; in all his time in Franklin County nobody ever called it that. Anderson was beginning to wonder if it was all a fabrication of the urbanites, a new dream of a Wild West here in the mountainous south, the fantasy of a frontier culture.

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