A Podcast & Book Series · Dawson County, Georgia
Preserving the Stories Behind Dawsonville's Moonshine Legacy
Your Story.
Your Voice.
Your Legacy.
There is a generation of Dawson County men and women who lived a story that may soon disappear. Moonshine Memoirs exists to preserve it before it's gone.
Now inviting founding participants · Inaugural volume publishing 2027
A Story That May Soon Disappear
For generations, moonshine wasn't simply a business in the mountains of North Georgia. It was part of the culture, the economy and the fabric of family life. The men and women who lived it remember:
- The Moonshine Runs
- The Cars
- The Roads
- The Close Calls
- The Families
- The Work
- The Adventure
And they remember the simple reality that, for many families, moonshine was a way to make a living and put food on the table. For some it was adventure. For others it was survival. For many families it became a story that was passed down but never written down.
Those Stories Deserve To Be
Remembered, Not Judged.
Moonshine Memoirs is being created to make sure they're written down, with the people who lived them telling them in their own words.
A Story Worth Preserving
Moonshine Memoirs is a new podcast and book series created to preserve the firsthand stories of the people who lived Dawson County's moonshine history, and of the family members who knew it up close.
Each founding participant sits down for an intimate, recorded conversation in Dawson County. That one conversation becomes both a professionally produced podcast episode and a professionally written chapter in the inaugural volume of Moonshine Memoirs.
ONE
recorded Conversation
ONE
Podcast episode
ONE PERMANENT
CHAPTER IN HISTORY
From Moonshine to Motorsports
In Dawsonville, moonshine and motorsports grew up together. The cars built to outrun revenuers became faster and faster, and the skills developed on moonshine runs helped give rise to the stock-car racing culture for which Dawsonville became famous.
Dawsonville became known as the "Moonshine Capital of the World." Moonshine Memoirs will preserve the people and stories behind that history, not just the legend
The Story Behind The Series
Created by Dawsonville Author
Tonya (odum) Eberhart
Tonya Eberhart's family story is deeply connected to the moonshine history of this community. Her father was the son of two moonshiners, and Tonya documented his life in her book The Raising of a Rebel: 12 Turning Points From a Child of Alcoholics. She also has multiple family members who have been inducted into the Moonshine Hall of Fame (including her grandfather).
After sharing her father's story, Tonya began hearing from people throughout Dawsonville who recognized their own families and experiences in the book. Those conversations led to a bigger realization: there are many more stories that need to be told before they are lost.
Moonshine Memoirs is her effort to preserve those stories for the families who lived them, and for the generations who will come after them.
OUR
PROMISE
Your story will be handled with respect, discretion and confidentiality.
You'll review your completed chapter, make final corrections and approve it before it is printed. Nothing you do not approve will be included in your published story.
Your Story Becomes Part of History
You aren't buying a place in a book. You're becoming one of the founding storytellers of a historical record your family can keep for generations.
60-90 Minute Recorded Interview
An intimate conversation, recorded in Dawson County.
A Featured Podcast Episode
Professionally produced and distributed through major podcast platforms
A Professionally Written Chapter
Your story, your history and your perspective, told in your own voice.
A Photograph With Your Story
Featured alongside your chapter in the book.
25 Complimentary Copies
Of the inaugural book, with additional copies available to order.
Your Final Approval
Nothing you don't approve will appear in your chapter.
If your story deserves more than one conversation, additional interviews may be arranged.
Founding Participant Investment
Become a Founding Participant
$5,000
Reserve Your Space by November 15, 2026
$6,500 beginning November 16, 2026 · Payment plans available
Every chapter can be funded by the storyteller, their family or a sponsor. The inaugural volume of Moonshine Memoirs will be published in 2027. Participation is by invitation and application, limited to the stories selected for the inaugural volume.
For Storytellers and Families
For businesses and individuals who want to fund a chapter and help preserve Dawson County history.
You lived the story.
Now let's make sure it lives on.
TONYA EBERHART
614-859-0175
team@brandfacestar.com
Now inviting founding participants · Inaugural volume publishing 2027