‘Minnesota 13’ still from Bowlus will be featured at The Gathering in Royalton

By Site Editor on July 27, 2012 at 10:37 am

Punky Benusa of Bowlus has held on to the still used by a family friend who was a moonshiner during the Prohibition years of 1920 – 1933.

In 1981, shortly before he died, Benusa’s friend came to him with the still and proceeded to show him how to use it by making a batch of moonshine.