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Moonshiner making legal white lightnin now
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Dwight Bearden was 6 or 7 years old when he first started helping his father on their liquor still north of Dawsonville. Now 58, Bearden has been making whiskey for more than a half century. But nowadays he’s brewing “white lightnin’ ” legally at Dawsonville Moonshine Distillery, owned by Cheryl Wood, who herself comes from a moonshine-making family.