Woman tells story of slave who taught Jack Daniels whiskey
LYNCHBURG, Tenn. (AP) — All Fawn Weaver could imagine was the sound of a gun being cocked over and over again.
On their second night in Tennessee's whiskey capital, Weaver and her husband, Keith, stood at the edge of a 10-foot hole that looked petrifyingly like a freshly dug grave.
It was after sunset. The field around them was tree lined and dark.
The man who led them there was a self-declared redneck.
"We were sure we were going to be shot or buried alive," Weaver recalls.
But as Weaver soon discovered, nothing in this small Southern town was exactly as it seemed.