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Welcome to our newsletter. All the creek that's fit to print.

Our biweekly newsletter is meant to be a one stop shop to keep you up to date on what is going on in the Bull Creek Greenbelt.

Upcoming Events at Bull Creek

Our next Monthly meeting is October 22nd from 6-8pm at the Lakewood Clubhouse, 7317 Lakewood Dr. We meet on the 4th Monday of each month, and we encourage anyone interested in greater involvement with Bull Creek Foundation to attend.

Join NWACA for their Third Saturday Park Clean Up, Saturday, October 20th, 2018 from 9- 11am . Registration is here: https://givepul.se/j8jw7

Check out our calendar for upcoming activities. While you are there, catch up on past events, history of the Bull Creek area, and all things Bull Creek. http://www.bullcreekfoundation.org/calendar/

Save the Date! TreeFolks will be doing a Ready, Set, Plant! event at Bull Creek District Park on 2/23/2019. You can find a link to this event here. Please share with neighbors - hope you can come participate in the planting!

Back in the Day: Bull Creek Hills Moonshine

Today, Craft Beers, wines, whiskey, and bourbon are all the rage. Almost every town, region and state in the United States has a specialty it is marketing across the country.

Back during the time of prohibition you could not advertise your products since they were illegal. But it was not beyond the realm of possibility that the local newspaper would do it for you.

In January 1923 the Austin American Statesman was actively covering the moonshine business in the hills west of Austin, specifically around Bull Creek. The many “hollows”, caves, dry creek beds along with plenty of dry wood provided many places for entrepreneurs to explore their craft.

In one article, the unnamed reporter, relates the following description of the quality of the goods seized by the Travis County Sheriff as well as the superiority of the distillation process over competing goods from other States.

“The will mountain fastnesses of Kentucky and Tennessee, where the most notorious moonshine gangs are said to operate offer no better places for the concealment of illicit liquor stills, the officers say. But there all resemblance ceases, for the squirrel whisky of Kentucky and Tennessee is soft water when compared to the double-poisoned, steel-lined, greased white lightning that the Bull Creek moonshiners manufacture. And the Sheriff’s office has six gallons of this Bull Creek booze to match against any equal quantity of squirrel beverage from any other place in the universe.”

While the quality of this review hardly matches that a food critic would give while reviewing a restaurant for a Michelin Star, it is pretty impressive. It gives the impression that the Sheriff and reporter have personal experience in evaluating the quality of the products from each location.

It has been one wet month! Photo courtesy of Jennifer M. Ramos

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